Thousands of astronomers are kicking themselves in the ass and having a "why didn’t I think of that?" moment. Astronomers now have over a million images of galaxies far, far away taken by telescopes that they need to classify into galaxy types, such as Spirals, Bared and Elliptical. In comes Dr. Chris Lintott of Oxford [...]

… or that’s at least what one scientist had to say when speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Chicago. How Dr. Alan Boss came up with this figure is rather simple; he claims that each sun-like star has on average one "Earth-like" planet… which sounds [...]