Until 1988 We'd Never Even Found an Exoplanet...

[NickFitz]

...now we're looking at their weather conditions

[threaded]

2014: singularity.

[Churchill]

...now we're looking at their weather conditions

The researchers used the Very Large Telescope for their observations

Just think what kind of data we'll get when they start using the "Absolutely Effing Huge Telescope"!

[shaunbhoy]

...now we're looking at their weather conditions

I wonder how long it will be before one of our "experts" claims that it is all due to there being a standing population of dinosaurs there that all drive 4x4s?

[OwlHoot]

...now we're looking at their weather conditions

They recently found a large rock planet (as opposed to a gas giant like Jupiter), several times the mass of the Earth, that orbits close to its sun, and has molten metal oceans and rain.

I wouldn't fancy meeting an alien from there, although they might have trouble launching rockets if the damn things kept melting!