exoplanet

The News Search For Extra-terrestrial Life: We Can Finally Analyse Exoplanet Atmospheres

Posted in Science on 26th Jul, 2022
by Alex Muller

The next generation of exoplanet studies has the potential to pass the bar of the extraordinary evidence needed to prove the existence of life.

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.

Google and university researchers are using deep learning to discover exoplanets

Posted in Science on 27th Mar, 2019
by Alex Muller

Researchers from Google and multiple universities have discovered two new exoplanets (planets outside our solar system) using a convolutional neural network dubbed AstroNet K2

The End Is Nigh for NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Space Telescope

Posted in Science on 9th Jul, 2018
by Alex Muller

Kepler space telescope, which has discovered 70 percent of the 3,750 exoplanets known to date, is running so low on fuel it has been put it into a hibernation-like state.

Delay for Nasa's TESS planet-hunting space telescope

Posted in Hardware on 17th Apr, 2018
by Alex Muller

The launch of Nasa's Tess planet-hunter has been postponed and it will not now lift off until Wednesday at the earliest.