astronomy

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.

GRAVITY instrument breaks new ground in exoplanet imaging

Posted in Science on 17th Apr, 2019
by Alex Muller

The GRAVITY instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) has made the first direct observation of an exoplanet using optical interferometry.