On the heels of the James Webb Space Telescope's hunt for exoplanets and galaxies, a decades-old interferometer mission could get new life.

Francois Henault(Submitted on 29 Aug 2015) Space-borne nulling interferometers have long been considered as the best option for searching and characterizing extra-solar planets located in the ...

As technological societies advance, their energy demands skyrocket, pushing them up the Kardashev scale. While fossil fuels, ...

To solve this problem, scientists have developed the concept of nulling interferometry, one of the smartest methods to date in the search for extrasolar planets.

Other detection methods include transit observation (measuring the dimming of a star's brightness as a planet passes in front of it) or nulling interferometry (where light waves received by ...

The ESO has announced the first-ever observation of an exoplanet using optical interferometry, greatly improving our understanding of the world's atmosphere.

Other detection methods include transit observation (measuring the dimming of a star’s brightness as a planet passes in front of it) or nulling interferometry (where light waves received by ...

LISA—the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna—would detect gravitational waves using the same technique as LIGO but place its hardware in space, free of any ground-based vibrations.

Astronomers have made a detection suggesting biosignatures, or signs of biological activity, on an exoplanet located 124 light-years away. But experts are skeptical.

This would enable the team to characterize planetary systems and detect atmospheric biosignatures from hundreds of nearby extrasolar planets.

The ESO has announced the first-ever observation of an exoplanet using optical interferometry, greatly improving our understanding of the world's atmosphere.