General informationCoronavirus pauses work on JWST NASA has stopped integration and testing work on some space missions as it prioritizes what missions require on-site personnel during...
conferencesExoplanetPostponement of conferences Due to the current Covid-19 pandemic, we regret to announce that all conferences on exoplanets have been postponed until at...
ExoplanetModelisationMultiple rings in protoplanetary discs: one planet to govern them all Recent observations of protoplanetary disks, these planetary systems in formation, frequently reveal sequences of dark and bright rings. While these...
ExoplanetWASP-76b: Nightside condensation of iron in an ultrahot giant exoplanet Ehrenreich and his team reporte the detection of an asymmetric atmospheric signature in the ultrahot exoplanet WASP-76b, revealing a different...
ExoplanetNGTS-10b: The shortest period hot Jupiter yet discovered Astronomers from the University of Warwick have observed an exoplanet orbiting a star in just over 18 hours, the shortest...
ExoplanetXMM-Newton reveals giant flare from a tiny star A star of about eight percent the Sun’s mass has been caught emitting an enormous ‘super flare’ of X-rays –...
ExoplanetCoherent radio emission from a quiescent red dwarf indicative of star–planet interaction Vedantham et al. recently published an article in Nature Astronomy about the discovery of a coherent radio emission from a...
Space missionWorkshopJWST Master Class Workshop The first call for proposals for the James Webb Space Telescope will open on January 23rd 2020, with an expected...
Space missionNASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope Ends 16-Year Mission of Discovery On January 30, 2020, NASA terminates the Spitzer Space Telescope mission after 6002 days since its launch in August 2003...
ExoplanetNew planet discovered Wolf Cukier, 17, of Scarsdale, N.Y., had wrapped up his junior year of high school when he headed off to...