A science historian at The University of Manchester has cracked "The Plato Code" – the long disputed secret messages hidden in the great philosopher's writings. Plato was the Einstein of Greece's ...

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One of the hottest fields in astronomy right now is the search for exoplanets. NASA’s Exoplanet Archive currently lists over 5,700 confirmed planets orbiting distant stars. And more discoveries will ...

Artist's concept of ESA's PLATO mission. European Space Agency The European Space Agency announced Wednesday the Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars, PLATO, mission to find new exoplanets, ...

The PLATO Physical Science courseware (www.plato.com) is standards-based curriculum that utilizes computer animation and multimedia instruction to address scientific concepts. The second of PLATO’s ...

The exploration of planets around stars other than the Sun, known as extrasolar planets or ‘exoplanets’, is one of the most exciting topics of 21st century science. One of the key goals of this ...

The PLATO mission will help us to find an answer to these questions. The PLATO Consortium is under the lead of the PI (Heike Rauer, DLR Institute of Planetary Research) who with her local team ...

A telescope to find rocky worlds around other stars has been selected for launch by the European Space Agency's (Esa) Science Policy Committee. Known as Plato, external, the mission should launch on a ...

A telescope to find thousands of planets beyond our Solar System is the hot favourite for selection as Europe's next medium-class science mission. Known as Plato, external, the concept was chosen by ...