HD 219134 b may not be a catchy name - but our new planetary neighbour deserves just as much attention as Earth’s cousin, Kepler-452 b.
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Why the new exoplanet said to resemble out Earth might just as well resemble Venus or Neptune.
Nimble and cheap commercial science could be the way to get more eyes in the sky.
A new exoplanet has been discovered that is a lot like Earth.
Astronomers have been looking for signs of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe for centuries. But the search has so far found nothing. So what makes this latest hunt so different?
Why the Breakthrough Listen project is a step in the right direction in our hunt for life beyond Earth.
The Parkes radio telescope is part of the US$100 million search for life elsewhere in the universe, but the investment will also benefit other space research at The Dish.
After a slow start, Hubble’s ultraviolet vision changed the face of astronomy.
The search for life on other planets gets a boost thanks to an old calculation that found Uranus in our solar system.
One to three planets in habitable zones around stars in our galaxy could sustain life.
One of the crucial variables in calculating the likelihood that alien life exists elsewhere in our galaxy is the number of stars that possess planetary systems, and the proportion of those planets that…
At the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society earlier this month, the NASA Kepler Space Telescope team announced its 1,000th discovery of a planet outside our solar system. This brings the…
More than 1,000 exoplanets have now been discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope, announced NASA this month, and the figure continues to climb. Three of the newly confirmed Kepler planets are thought…
When it comes to finding the right kind of planet to target in the search for life elsewhere in the universe, the size of the planet matters. All planets are believed to form by a process of competitive…
Every so often our Earth encounters a large chunk of space debris which reminds us that our solar system still contains plenty of debris that could potentially have an impact on life on Earth. While the…
In the search for life beyond our solar system, we need to consider the system in which a planet moves, including the other planets and assorted debris that accompany it on its journey through the cosmos…
In the search for life-sustaining planets we must first choose the right host star. There are many factors that would make a star system too hostile for life to even get started, let alone survive for…
The criteria for life on other planets is the focus of the 4th Australian Exoplanet Workshop, hosted by the University of Southern Queensland this week. The first in this series on exoplanets looks at…
While alien life can be seen nightly on television and in the movies, it has never been seen in space. Not so much as a microbe, dead or alive, let alone a wrinkle-faced Klingon. Despite this lack of protoplasmic…
New observations of a youthful binary star system, reported today in the journal Nature, may help to explain one of exoplanetary science’s greatest unanswered questions – the peculiar orbits of so many…
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Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
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University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
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Professor of Astrophysics Education, The Open University
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Professor (Physics), University of Southern Queensland
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Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona
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Associate Professor, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
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Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University
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Senior Curator (Astronomy), Museums Victoria Research Institute; The University of Melbourne
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W J McDonald Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin
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Professor and Associate Dean (Research), UNSW