Tag: Planets

  • Nation & World

    My three suns

    Harvard astronomers are studying a newly discovered rocky planet with three suns called LTT1445Ab in the hopes it will provide valuable insights into Earth.

    4 minutes
    Jennifer Winters
  • Nation & World

    A lost Yugoslavia

    A selection of photographs from Nobel laureate Martin Karplus is on display at the Minda de Gunzburg Center’s Jacek E. Giedrojć Gallery until Jan. 13, 2020.

    3 minutes
    Three women in Yugoslavia, 1955
  • Nation & World

    Search for Earth’s twin shows promise

    The quest for a twin Earth is heating up. Francois Fressin, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), presented the new analysis of Kepler data that shows that about 17 percent of stars have an Earth-sized planet in an orbit closer than Mercury.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Alien worlds, just like home

    Harvard astronomers, working as part of NASA’s Kepler mission, have detected the first Earth-sized planets orbiting a distant star, a milestone in the hunt for alien worlds that brings scientists one step closer to their ultimate goal of finding a twin Earth.

    2 minutes