by Tanja Schumann | Jul 6, 2025 | Highlights EN, Press releases
The European space telescope PLATO of the European Space Agency (ESA), scheduled to start its search for Earth-like planets orbiting Sun-like stars from 2027, has reached an important milestone. In the last few days, two main components of the spacecraft – the payload...
by Tanja Schumann | Jun 18, 2025 | Highlights EN, Press releases
Münster, 15 May 2025It is with great pleasure that we announce the founding of the German Society for Planetary Research (DGP). This organisation was established to promote and network scientific research into the planets, moons, asteroids and comets in our solar...
by Ludwig Scheibe | Mar 26, 2025 | Exoplanet systems, Highlights EN, Press releases
by Ruth Titz-Weider (DLR), March 2025 Barnard’s star is the second closest neighbour to our Sun and the closest single star with a planetary system. Only the star Proxima Centauri with two planets is closer to us, but it is part of a triple star system. At a...
by Tanja Schumann | Mar 21, 2025 | Exoplanets, Highlights EN
by Tanja Schumann (TU Berlin), March 2025 With an Earth Similarity Index (ESI) of 0.88, Kepler 438b is the exoplanet most similar to Earth. The formula behind the ESI provides a number between zero and one – the higher the value, the more a celestial body resembles...
by Tanja Schumann | Mar 21, 2025 | Exoplanet systems, Highlights EN
by Tanja Schumann (TU Berlin), March 2025 Of the about 5800 known exoplanets discovered as of March 2025, about 2000 are part of planetary systems with more than one confirmed planet around the same star. Most of those are two-planet systems (about 500). However,...
by Tanja Schumann | Mar 18, 2025 | Exoplanet systems, Highlights EN
Eight planets orbit around the star Kepler-90. Similar to our solar system, there are small planets inside and larger ones outside. However, the entire system would not extend beyond the Earth’s orbit. ← Back to the highlights overview
