A planet-hunting telescope called Ariel will launch in 2029 to study more than 1,000 worlds outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, the European Space Agency (ESA) has revealed. The £500 ...

THE UK-LED Space Telescope Ariel has been given the green light to go "full speed ahead" on a world-first mission to study more than 1,000 planets beyond our solar system. The "planet hunter" ...

Getting a better handle on exoplanet diversity and evolution seems to be a high priority for the European Space Agency (ESA). ESA has selected the Atmospheric Remote‐sensing Infrared Exoplanet ...

ARIEL, an ESA mission to make the first large-scale survey of exoplanet atmospheres, has announced the winners of its first international Machine Learning Data Challenge and has launched a new project ...

Artist’s impression of Ariel on its way to Lagrange Point 2 (L2). Here, the spacecraft is shielded from the Sun and has a clear view of the whole sky. Five thousand detected extrasolar planets and ...

ESA has given the go-ahead for its Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (Ariel) mission to progress from the study phase to the implementation phase, with an industrial ...

A €200m (£170m) contract has been signed with European industry to build the Ariel space telescope. The observatory will study planets around other stars to try to understand how these objects formed ...

Scientists hope to learn what makes a ‘typical’ solar system using the European Space Agency’s €450-million ARIEL probe. The world’s first space telescope dedicated to studying the atmospheres of ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has contracted Airbus to design and build the exoplanet satellite Ariel (Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey). Following Cheops, which launched ...

Image source, ESA/STFC RAL Space/UCL/Europlanet-Science Office A €200m (£170m) contract has been signed with European industry to build the Ariel space telescope. The observatory will study planets ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has contracted Airbus to design and build the exoplanet satellite Ariel (Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey). Following Cheops, which launched ...