In what is being hailed as one of the most remarkable discoveries in the search for habitable planets outside of our own solar system, a star has been found that has seven Earth-sized planets orbiting […]
For generations, mankind has dreamed of exploring new worlds and finding life elsewhere. While the Apollo 11 mission was monumental for being the first time that a human being had set foot on another planetary […]
A new planet with three suns has been discovered in the constellation of Centaurus, according to a report published in the weekly ‘Science’ journal. Around 320 light years away from Earth, the planet, named HD […]
Since the 1990’s, astronomers have discovered around two thousand planets located outside of our solar system, including gas giants, icy planets, and rocky worlds, most of which are orbiting outside of their parent star’s habitable […]
For the first time ever an Earth-sized planet has been discovered orbiting the habitable zone of a sun within our own Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers are also claiming that there exists a high probability it […]
The first confirmed detection of an exoplanet came in 1992, followed by the first detection of an exoplanet orbiting a star in 1995. Improved observational techniques have since seen the rate of discoveries accelerate and […]
Since astronomers discovered the first exoplanet in 1992, which was bizarrely named PSR 1257 +12, a further 841 have been added to the list with new discoveries becoming quite a regular occurrence. However, the latest […]
On Sept. 29th 2010, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Steven Vogt and his team of scientists made the exciting announcement they had detected the presence of an Earth-like planet three […]
Researchers at Ohio State University have recently concluded that around 15 percent of all stars in our galaxy could host solar systems. Our galaxy is estimated to contain between 100 and 400 billion stars, so […]
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