The PLATO space mission will use 26 cameras to search for Earth-like planets around 200,000 stars in the Milky Way, starting in late 2026. DLR is leading the PLATO payload consortium and supplying ...

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 ...

Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered climate change, space rockets, mathematical puzzles, dinosaur bones, black holes, supernovas, and sometimes, the drama of philosophical ...

PLATO just moved a little closer to the future. The upcoming exoplanet-hunting mission under development by the European Space Agency (ESA) is named after the Greek philosopher. Like its namesake, it ...

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 ...

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 ...