...the maximum chance of finding planets, are only possible from space. Kepler stared for four years at the same patch ... of Warwick in the UK and leads the PLATO mission’s Science Management Office. His research focuses on the discovery of transiting ...
... lunar exploration programmes, and the Moon as a target for science and exploration is set to become a new focus of international... the development of the Lunar Gateway (also called Deep Space Gateway). Which of these visions will be implemented? This...
.... "The first time we saw that, it was just mind boggling," said Sushil Atreya, professor of climate and space sciences at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Atreya is a co-author of a paper on this topic published on 12 November in the Journal...
...of recent decades include a focus on the search for life on other planets and an increase in the number of books on space science written as a personal narrative, both of which are welcome. This book combines the two developments in an accessible and...
... to worlds orbiting other stars. Investigations using NASA’s Kepler space telescope suggest that perhaps as many as one in five ...View, California. He is also the host of ‘Big Picture Science’, the SETI Institute’s weekly radio show, and is committed ...
... a significant setback for many scientists and wealthy space enthusiasts who have ambitious plans of human exploration and...in this test inside a clean room at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver. This configuration is how the spacecraft will ...