Sometime after 2014, NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder and the European Space Agency's Darwin mission will attempt to make the first direct images of rocky worlds. (discovermagazine.com)
This is the first direct image of gravitational waves across the primordial sky,» said co-leader Chao - Lin Kuo (Stanford / SLAC). (sciencedaily.com)
Thousands of extrasolar planets are now known, but only a handful have been detected in direct images. (science.sciencemag.org)