Planet birth ESO’s VLT spots first direct evidence of planet birth The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed possible signs of a star system being born. Around...
Space mission Crew Dragon: the launch is set on May 30th 2020 Watch history unfold on Saturday, May 30, as NASA and SpaceX launch astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the...
Exoplanets A breakthrough in the formation of exo-terrestrial atmospheres Exoplanets could capture a late gas in their atmospheres for tens of millions of years, enriching them with carbon and...
Solar System The mystery of the formation of the satellites of Uranus revealed The ice-giant planet Uranus, the 8th planet of the solar system, has its axis of rotation and its satellites inclined...
Exoplanet Has the first ringed exoplanet been discovered? Discovered in 2015 by the Kepler satellite, the exoplanet HIP 41378 f has an abnormal density, less than one tenth...
Exoplanet Exoplanet Watch – Beta Testers Needed Exoplanet Watch is a citizen science project to observe transiting exoplanets, planets outside of our solar system, with small telescopes....
Exoplanet The hunt for Exomoons Kipping and his team are hunting exomoons around eight M-Dwarfs with the Kepler data. Abstract : With their smaller radii...
Exoplanet A second planet discovered around the star Proxima Centauri In 2016, astronomers discovered Proxima Centauri b, a planet orbiting around our nearest star, Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf star...
General information Coronavirus 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...
conferences Exoplanet Postponement of conferences Due to the current Covid-19 pandemic, we regret to announce that all conferences on exoplanets have been postponed until at...