14 December 2017
AI detects eighth planet orbiting distant sun
... early-stage research to apply machine learning algorithms – promises to continue to yield significant advances in our understanding of planetary systems around other stars. I’m sure there are more firsts in the data waiting for people to find them...
18 August 2021
New study sheds light on Solar System heavy metal problem
... in various stages of star formation and protoplanetary disk development; aspects which represent the earliest stages planetary system development. By combining the imaging data of all of the telescopes, Forbes and colleagues were able to visualise...
22 July 2020
Astronomers capture the first ever image of a multi-planet system around a Sun-like star
...our own Sun. Just a few weeks ago, ESO revealed a planetary system being born in a new, stunning VLT image. Now, the ...the same instrument, has taken the first direct image of a planetary system around a star like our Sun, located about 300 light-years...
01 August 2016
SETI has new eyes on the skies
...had to extract signals from 45 exoplanets in 38 planetary systems to ensure they were not confused with anything ... things, systematic, volume-limited searches of exoplanet systems for signals from technologically advanced civilisations. The search...
22 December 2016
Faint signals of water in the nearby Universe can now be detected by ALMA
... enabling ALMA to look beyond the dust in these fledgling planetary systems to see what role water plays in their evolution. ...water, a prerequisite for life as we know it, in our Solar System and in more distant regions of our galaxy and beyond. They ...
27 March 2019
Storm-plagued exoplanet revealed in detail with GRAVITY
... a super-sized world unlike any found in our Solar System. The exoplanet was first discovered in 2010 when it was... youth can help scientists work out how planets and planetary systems form. HR8799e is also completely inhospitable too; the exoplanet...
