exoplanet
NASA is building a new exoplanet-hunting tool
Posted in Hardware on 30th Mar, 2016
by Alex Muller
The $10 million instrument is expected to start looking for exoplanets in 2019.
Astronomers identify trick to root out false-positives in the search for life
Posted in Science on 6th Mar, 2016
by Alex Muller
Scenarios in which the detection of oxygen in the atmosphere of exoplanets would not represent the presence of extraterrestrial life.
Astronomers Want to Build A Forty Foot Space Telescope to Find the Next Earth
Posted in Hardware on 8th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller
To achieve this, well need a spacecraft more advanced than anything humans have built, a telescope with 10x the seeing power of Hubble.
Advance in astronomy 'can help find other worlds'
Posted in Featured, Science on 4th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller
"Our technique can tell you how big and bright is the star, and if a planet around it is the right size and temperature to have water oceans, and maybe life"
Space telescopes launching in 2017 and 2018 will mean a lot more exoplanet discoveries
Posted in Science on 25th Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller
New space telescopes will be put up over the next few years to search for more planets outside our solar system and analyze their atmospheres.