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Publicly available data and collaborations between scientists have led to the discovery of a planet in a triple-star system.
The hottest exoplanet known so far has metals in its atmosphere – something scientists thought would be impossible.
The primary objective of CHEOPS is to better understand the planets that we’ve already found. And its mission is now in full swing.
Sometimes it is difficult to take a photograph of an exoplanet because the star illuminating it is too bright. Now there is a new ‘deluminator’ telescope that can block out the extra light.
The new planet-hunting telescope TESS was successfully launched today by NASA, and Australia will play a key role in checking out any new worlds it discovers.
When NASA first started planning the Kepler mission, no one knew if the universe held any planets outside our solar system. Thousands of exoplanets later, the search enters a new phase as Kepler retires.
Google’s artificial intelligence has been taught to look for planets around other stars. It’s already making new discoveries that scientists have missed.
Complex life may be rare in the universe because most planets become either too hot or too cold before life has a chance to get a foothold. This might explain why we have yet to bump into E.T.
There are technological ways to hide a planet from intergalactic detection – as well as ways to signal that we’re just sitting here, eager for contact.
When Kepler was at the very height of his scientific career, his mother was accused of witchcraft.
There’s a lot of speculation about a star behaving strangely in our galaxy. But even if it’s not evidence of alien intelligence, it’s sure to be an amazing discovery.
A new exoplanet has been discovered that is a lot like Earth.
Two papers were published today in Nature, each independently revealing that a planet discovered by the Kepler mission is the closest thing we’ve found yet to another Earth. But don’t pack your bags just…
As I write this, engineers at NASA and Ball Aerospace & Technologies have their fingers crossed they’ll be able to restart the stricken Kepler space observatory, which has been in hibernation mode…
Over the past few months, NASA’s Kepler mission has repeatedly made headlines with announcements of new and unusual planetary systems around other stars. To name a few, we’ve had the most densely packed…
On Monday, to much fanfare, astronomers working with the Kepler space observatory (which was launched in March 2009) announced their first discovery of a planet orbiting within the “habitable zone” of…
During a lunch in the summer of 1950, physicists Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller and Herbert York were chatting about a recent New Yorker cartoon depicting aliens abducting trash cans in flying saucers. Suddenly…
In the late 1980s, when I was a young whipper-snapper just starting out as an astronomer, it was quite obvious some fields had an incredibly high profile and others were outré. The sexy ideas at the time…
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Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
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Professor and Associate Dean (Research), UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Professor of Early Modern European History, University of Cambridge
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PhD Candidate, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Extragalactic Astronomy, Head of the Astrophysics Group, University of Bath
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Laureate Professor of Mathematics, University of Newcastle
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Researcher at Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University
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Project Scientist of the Twinkle Space Mission, Research Fellow of Astronomy, UCL
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Professor of Physics, UMass Lowell
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Astronomy, UCL
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Professor of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles
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PhD; Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (retired) and Research Fellow, University of California, Davis
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Associate professor, Astronomy, University of Regina
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