Exoplanets
Surveying the skies
Two stories of looking to the skies. Claire Concannon joins a hunt for planets outside of our solar system. Katy Gosset reveals the results of the annual New Zealand Garden Birds Survey. Audio
Surveying the skies
Two stories of looking to the skies. Claire Concannon joins a hunt for planets outside of our solar system. Katy Gosset reveals the results of the annual New Zealand Garden Birds Survey.
AudioSara Seager: searching for planets beyond our solar system
Sara Seager is a renowned Canadian-born astrophysicist and planetary scientist based at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on the discovery of planets outside our own… Audio
Distant star system has record number of exoplanets
Nasa has found a distant star circled by eight planets, equal to the complement in our own Solar System.
Tech news: No fly drones and exoplanets
The problems of private drone use during an emergency; claims that half of the world's web traffic is encrypted; and gamers identify planets for scientists in a cool citizen science project. Audio
NASA announces exoplanets discovery
Nasa has just announced the discovery of seven Earth-sized planets that orbit stars other than our sun. We talk to Nasa scientist Natalie Batalha. Audio