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26/04/2018 Citizen Science at Holomon Astronomical Station!

31/11/2017 NASA and ESA are preparing some new space missions especially designed to study exoplanets. TESS (The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), a NASA mission planned for launch next year (2018) , is to detect small planets within the solar neighbourhood. These planets will be very good targets for detailed characterisation of their atmospheres.

16/02/2016 The first successful detection of gases in the atmosphere of a super-Earth reveals the presence of hydrogen and helium, but no water vapour, according to UCL researchers.