The European Space Agency (ESA) is on a lookout for Earth like planets outside our solar system and for the mission it is developing a unique telescope. According to the ESA officials, it would be a three-year mission which will commence in 2024. The mission has been named PLATO and it is expected to cost more than 800 million euros. The mission will use Planetary Transits and Oscillations … [Read more...]
The secret behind life on Earth
Life on Earth might have been kickstarted by space materials deposited by comet and meteor impacts. Scientists at NASA, while analysing carbon-rich meteorites found amino acids which help create proteins that are used to make components like hair and skin including the components needed to make DNA. The researchers also found other molecules important to the biological process that includes … [Read more...]
NASA’s Kepler discovers Earth’s twin KOI-314c, KOI-314b
NASA scientists have said that the celestial bodies that vary between Earth and Neptune in size are indeed planets as there is no clear dividing line between rocky worlds like Earth and fluffier planets like water worlds or gas giants. During a press conference at the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society, the scientists unveiled some of the discoveries of the Kepler spacecraft … [Read more...]
