planets
Europe's PLATO will hunt for habitable Earth-like planets
Posted in Hardware on 22nd Feb, 2014
by Alex Muller
Unlike Kepler, the European astronomers are looking for something very specific and more exciting: Earth-like rocky planets in their Sun-like stars habitable zones.
Kepler demonstrates that it can still detect planets
Posted in Hardware on 20th Feb, 2014
by Alex Muller
Last year, it looked as though the Kepler space probe had nothing to look forward to but the scrap heap.
Rogue asteroids may be the norm
Posted in Science on 3rd Feb, 2014
by Alex Muller
The new asteroid map suggests that the early solar system may have undergone dramatic changes before the planets assumed their current alignment.