Scientists develop laser that could help find smaller planets

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 21:46

Scottish scientists are developing a new kind of laser that could help astronomers to find small Earth-like planets outside our solar system.

Finding earth-Like planets, using waves

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 24, 2013, 17:52

What if you are told that a wave can find earth-like planets, identify unknown substances for the medical fraternity and boost the capacity of existing telecom networks?

One in five stars in Milky Way circled by Earth-like planets

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 5, 2013, 19:50

Twenty per cent of Sun-like stars in our Milky Way galaxy have Earth-sized planets that could potentially host life, a new study has found.

Planet hunters find Earth-like twin beyond the solar system

Last Updated: Thursday, October 31, 2013, 09:15

For the first time, scientists have found a planet beyond the solar system that not only is the same size as Earth, but has the same proportions of iron and rock, a key step in an ongoing quest to find potentially habitable sister worlds.

NASA tries to save Kepler spacecraft

Last Updated: Friday, July 19, 2013, 12:55

NASA says it will try to fix its space telescope that hunts for planets outside our solar system.

Two new Earth-like planets orbiting Sun-like star found

Last Updated: Friday, April 19, 2013, 10:25

Scientists have discovered two Earth-like planets in the habitable orbit of a Sun-like star.

100 billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy?

Last Updated: Thursday, April 4, 2013, 14:07

Scientists have proposed a new method for finding Earth-like planets in our Milky Way galaxy and they anticipate that their number may be up to a whopping 100 billion.