Construction on the worlds largest optical telescope began with a bang Thursday, as workers demolished a hilltop in Chiles Atacama desert. The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) telescope, being built by the European Southern Observatory, aims to give astronomers new insight into the origins of the universe and help search for potentially habitable planets elsewhere […]
The European Space Agency will launch an observatory into space designed to seek out potentially habitable planets outside of our solar system. The PLATO — Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars — mission will search for planets by monitoring the brightness of up to a million nearby stars. The mission will search for habitable planets The space-based […]
Potentially habitable planets may be far more common than we initially believed. But that doesnt mean theyll look much like Earth: planets could have no rotations, permanent days and nights, and plants that grow entirely black to stay alive.
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