Jun 5, 2017 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to track the two components of Luhman 16AB, the third closest system to the Solar System. This...

Jun 1, 2017 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers have discovered a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star Gliese 625. This artist’s concept depicts a super-Earth-size exoplanet....

May 31, 2017 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers have identified that the light from PDS 110 is regularly blocked by a large object — and they predict that these eclipses are caused...

May 23, 2017 by News Staff

Astronomers have used data gathered by K2, the second mission of NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, to confirm details of TRAPPIST-1h, the outermost of seven...

May 17, 2017 by News Staff

A team of astrophysicists and meteorology experts from the University of Exeter and the UK’s Met Office have embarked on the first, tentative steps to...

May 16, 2017 by News Staff

A multinational team of astronomers led by Lehigh University researcher Joshua Pepper has discovered a ‘styrofoam’-density exoplanet orbiting the bright...

May 12, 2017 by News Staff

Astronomers have discovered that HAT-P-26b — a ‘warm Neptune’ orbiting a dwarf star approximately 437 light-years from Earth — has an atmosphere...

May 11, 2017 by News Staff

The recently discovered TRAPPIST-1 planetary system has a unique configuration, according to new research from the University of Toronto, Canada. This...

May 10, 2017 by News Staff

A team of astronomers led by the Carnegie Institution has discovered that what scientists had previously thought was one of the closest brown dwarfs to...

May 3, 2017 by News Staff

New observations from the joint German-U.S. Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), the largest airborne observatory in the world, indicate...

May 3, 2017 by James Romero

Exomoons around migrant hot Jupiters could hold onto life-giving atmospheres and maintain surface oceans for billions and billions of years. This is the...

Apr 28, 2017 by Natali Anderson

Using a planet-hunting technique called gravitational microlensing, astronomers have detected an Earth-mass planet orbiting an ultracool dwarf 12,750 light-years...

Apr 19, 2017 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers have discovered a ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet in the habitable zone of LHS 1140, a small, cool star in the constellation of Cetus, approximately...

Apr 17, 2017 by News Staff

A study by Dr. Siegfried Eggl of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Dr. Max Popp of Princeton University and the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology...

Apr 10, 2017 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers, led by Keele University researcher John Southworth, has managed to detect an atmosphere around GJ 1132b, a ‘super-Earth’...

Mar 24, 2017 by James Romero

Exoplanet hunters struck gold earlier this year with the discovery of seven rocky bodies orbiting around dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, a find that both raised...

Mar 21, 2017 by Enrico de Lazaro

Kirby Runyon, a PhD candidate in planetary geology at the Johns Hopkins University, and co-authors are proposing to rewrite the textbooks to say that the...

Mar 6, 2017 by Enrico de Lazaro

Using NASA’s Kepler spacecraft on its K2 mission, astronomers have discovered five new planets around other stars, including two extraordinary companions...

Mar 1, 2017 by News Staff

There may be a large number of undetected giant planet-like bodies in the neighborhood of our Sun, according to a Carnegie-led team of astronomers from...

Feb 27, 2017 by News Staff

Evidence of planetary debris surrounding a white dwarf and its substellar companion has been found by a University College London-led international team...