27 October 2021
Astronomers may have detected the first planet outside of the Milky Way
... binary source in another galaxy. It stands to reason that our galaxy is not the only galaxy in which planets exist. But spotting planets in other galaxies is incredibly difficult to do. This is because each external galaxy occupies such a small area...
19 November 2021
New mission to search for habitable planets close to Earth announced
... that, paradoxically, makes it easier to detect perturbances of star movements that are the tell-tale signs of orbiting planets. "Nobody is underestimating the challenge, but our innovative design incorporates new tricks”, Tuthill says. “Our plan...
26 November 2021
A closer Moon could have helped the early habitability of our planet
... would be no, or hardly any, liquid water on the planet’s surface. However geological records, such as oxygen isotope data ... “this heat could have supported the early habitability of our planet”, says Heller in a Tweet. The team’s research, “...
11 April 2018
Revealing planet formation processes with SPHERE
... the light from the evolving protostar masks the presence of any planets that have started to form. Rather handily, SPHERE is equipped ... – sites that are considered to be undergoing planet production – SPHERE will revolutionise our understanding of ...
01 March 2019
New evidence of a planet-wide groundwater system on Mars
... debate, and we found the first geological evidence of a planet-wide groundwater system on Mars.” This evidence comes in the form... on – form within. In the second stage (middle), the planet-wide water level drops and new landforms emerge as a result....
29 May 2019
Comets inspire new way to make breathable oxygen on other planets
... quantities of O2 into the skies, before life could use it to evolve beyond simple microorganisms that dominated the planet at the time. Oxygen now makes up nearly 21 percent of Earth’s atmosphere. Finding such vast quantities elsewhere is going...
