astronomy
The Future Of Astronomy: Three BIG Reasons To Be Excited
Posted in Science on 6th May, 2020
by Alex Muller
ELT, SKA and Webb are just three examples of major land- and space-based telescopes where STFC scientists, engineers and technicians work in collaboration with partners and Institutions globally to truly push the frontiers of astronomy and space science.
Analysis of Super-Earth atmosphere reveals potentially-habitable world
Posted in Business, Science on 1st Mar, 2020
by Alex Muller
The main differences between an Earth-like and a Neptune-like exoplanet come down to the ratio of atmosphere-to-rock, as well as the composition of both.
Finding Over 100 Million Exoplanets By 2050
Posted in Science on 30th Dec, 2019
by Alex Muller
The cumulative number of exoplanets that have been discovered has been following power law scaling for the past 25 years and if this continued to 2050 then we would find about 100 million exoplanets.
The 5 most groundbreaking scientific achievements of the decade
Posted in Featured, Science on 1st Dec, 2019
by Alex Muller
The world has seen some pretty major scientific achievements in the last 10 years, as discoveries and developments decades in the making were finally realized.
NASA’s TESS Spacecraft Is Finding Hundreds of Exoplanets and Is Poised to Find Thousands More
Posted in Science on 24th Nov, 2019
by Alex Muller
Within just 50 light-years from Earth, there are about 1,560 stars, likely orbited by several thousand planets.