exoplanet

By 2020 hundreds of earth sized exoplanets should be discovered and many will have basic atmosphere elements detected

Posted in Science on 17th May, 2017
by Alex Muller

Currently there are 3486 confirmed exoplanets.

Atmosphere found around Earth-like planet GJ 1132b

Posted in Science on 7th Apr, 2017
by Alex Muller

Scientists say they have detected an atmosphere around an Earth-like planet for the first time.

Exoplanet space telescope will launch in December 2017

Posted in Science on 30th Nov, 2016
by Alex Muller

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a planned space telescope for NASA's Explorers program, designed to search for exoplanets using the transit method.

The Daring Plan to Find the Next Earth Within a Decade

Posted in Science on 15th Oct, 2016
by Alex Muller

Project Blue, an ambitious effort to discover Earth-like worlds around Alpha Centauri A or B, by building a small, space-based telescope capable of photographing them.

WFIRST space telescope will use Gravitational microlensing to survey exoplanets

Posted in Science on 9th Oct, 2016
by Alex Muller

This will lead to a statistical census of exoplanets with masses greater than a tenth of the Earth's mass.