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 18, 2025 | Highlights EN, Press releases
by Tanja Schumann (TU Berlin), March 2025 Currently, there are two main methods by which exoplanets are discovered: The transit method looks for planets by examining the light from stars for brief fluctuations in light. The light fluctuates when an exoplanet passes by...
by Tanja Schumann | Jan 30, 2025 | Press releases
Lia Bernabò, a PhD student at the DLR Institute of Planetary Research in Szílard Csizmadia’s research group, and her colleagues have analysed observations of the exoplanet WASP-43b, including those obtained by the James Webb Space Telescope, to investigate tidal...
by Ludwig Scheibe | Nov 21, 2024 | Highlights EN, Press releases
by Ludwig Scheibe & Tanja Schumann (TU Berlin), December 2023 On 15 December 2023, the SPP 1992 celebrated the finalisation of the exoplanet show by the Planetarium in Hamburg. Due to gigantic distances, it is impossible to observe what exoplanets might look like,...
