For the very first time astronomers were successful in observing details of a star, Altair that is quite similar to our Sun. The astronomers used a technique that counters distortion caused by the Earth’s atmosphere in observing the...

The Corot stands for “Convection Rotation and planetary Transits”, a spacecraft has launched today from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to search for another ‘Earth’ in the solar system. It is developed by the French...

We have long been wondering to know if we are alone in the universe. One can also say that in the process of finding answer to this question we made advances in the field of astronomy. The search for exoplanets has always fascinated the...

Earlier we think that satellites are intended for environmental monitoring, meteorology, telecommunication, map making etc. But now these man made satellites will play another role to detect distant rocky world. According to the European Space...