Extrasolar Planets
Kepler Will Be Used to Measure the Size of the Universe
[/caption] On April 7th, commands were sent to NASA's exoplanet-hunting Kepler telescope to eject the 1.3×1.7 metre lens cap so…
Kepler Flips Its Lid; Soon Ready for Planet Hunt
[/caption] Engineers successfully ejected the dust cover from NASA's Kepler telescope last night and the space observatory will soon begin…
Moon Reveals New Way to Find Oceans, Land on Other Earths
[/caption] An Australian doctoral researcher using a backyard telescope has made a potentially big discovery: Earth's oceans and continents shine…
JWST Will Provide Capability to Search for Biomarkers on Earth-like Worlds
[/caption] Does another Earth exist somewhere in our galaxy? With the recent lauch of the Kepler spacecraft, astronomers are getting…
Looking For Extraterrestrials Looking At Us
[/caption]The cosmos is a very big place, how do you begin the search for exoplanets orbiting other stars? Astronomers have…
Success: Kepler Lifts Off to Look for Other Earths
[/caption] NASA's Kepler mission lifted off without a hitch just before 11 p.m. local time Friday from Cape Canaveral Air Force…
New Technique Allows Astronomers to Discover Exoplanets in Old Hubble Images
[/caption] The Hubble Space Telescope has recently provided us with some astonishing images of exoplanets orbiting distant stars. This is…
Powerful Fusion Laser to Recreate Conditions Inside Exoplanets
[/caption]We've all heard that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will collide particles together at previously unimaginable energies. In doing so,…
NASA’s Kepler Mission Ready for Launch
[/caption] NASA's Kepler spacecraft is ready to be moved to the launch pad today and will blast off within…
The Milky Way Could have Billions of Earths
With the upcoming launch in March of the Kepler mission to find extrasolar planets, there is quite a lot of…