Using data from NASA’s Kepler Mission, San Diego State University astronomers announced the discovery of two new transiting “circumbinary” planet systems — planets that orbit
China and India are joining forces for a project to build the Thirty Meter Telescope, the world’s largest telescope, being built at the summit of
This artist’s illustration gives an impression of how common planets are around the stars in a region of the Milky Way. The viewer is able
The year of exoplanets. The Kepler space observatory to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars. The spacecraft, named in honor of the 17th-century German astronomer
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too
In his famous lecture, “Life in the Universe”, Stephen Hawking asks: “What are the chances that we will encounter some alien form of life, as
This artist’s concept illustrates a young, red dwarf star surrounded by three planets. Such stars are dimmer and smaller than yellow stars like our sun,
Astronomers using ESO’s world-leading exoplanet hunter HARPS have today announced a rich haul of more than 50 new exoplanets, including 16 super-Earths, one of which
So far, humanity has only recorded sunrises on Mars and Earth, but it is fun to wonder what they would look like on planets known
A massive radio telescope in rural West Virginia has begun listening for signs of alien life on 86 possible Earth-like planets, US astronomers said Friday.
