The weird Exoplanets in our nearby Universe
Take a look at this infographic showing the weird Exoplanets in our nearby Universe…
Take a look at this infographic showing the weird Exoplanets in our nearby Universe…
NASA just unveiled plans for flower shaped starshade space telescope, to acquire Images of Earth-Like exoplanets. Watch the video…
In an effort to find life-habitable worlds outside our Solar System, answering the question ‘is Earth the only known world that can support life?,’ stars
60 billion potentially habitable planets may be orbiting Red Dwarfs in our Milky Way alone, twice the number previously thought. Image © NASA
NASA’s Kepler Planet-Hunting telescope has lost its ability to point toward stars, because one of the reaction wheels that control the telescope’s orientation in space,
100 billion Planets around us! Caltech-led astronomers now estimate that at least 100 billion planets populate the our Milky Way. Image © Luc Perrot; Luc’s
In this special episode, prepared for their 50th anniversary, ESO is looking at one of the greatest quests that astronomers have pursued over the centuries:
XKCD published an infographic a few weeks ago, showing 786 known exoplanets (planets orbiting suns other than our own) in our Milky Way galaxy, and
The world’s largest optical/infrared telescope, the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), has been given the initial go-ahead to be built. The new ground-based telescope is
This illustration shows the 63 hot Jupiter systems, planetary systems with Jupiter-size planet candidates in three-day orbits, and their stars as well as approximate stellar