Astronomers have detected what they think may be an exoplanet circling a brown dwarf pair called Luhman 16AB, the third-closest star system to the Sun.
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An international team of astronomers announced the discovery of a giant extrasolar planet orbiting its star at more than 20 times the average Neptune-Sun...
Two teams of scientists using the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have detected faint signatures of water in the atmospheres...
According to astronomers reporting in the journal Nature, Kepler-78b is the first Earth-sized exoplanet found to have an Earth-like density.
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British and German astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and telescopes of the W. M. Keck Observatory have detected the remains of an asteroid...
Astronomers using the Pan-STARRS 1 wide-field survey telescope on Haleakala, Maui, have discovered a very young free-floating planet named PSO J318.5-22.
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Astronomers using data from two space telescopes have created the first cloud map of a hot gas giant called Kepler-7b.
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An international team of astronomers reporting in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org) has discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet called Kepler 78b that...
Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii have captured a direct image of an exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star.
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An international team of scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope’s Imaging Spectrograph has for the first time determined the true color of an extrasolar...
According to a new study reported in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, there may be as many as 60 billion planets in the so-called habitable zone around...
An international group of astronomers reporting in the journal Nature has discovered two extrasolar planets circling Sun-like stars in the open star cluster...
An international team of researchers has used new observations of Gliese 667C to find evidence of up to seven planets circling the star, including three...
A new study published in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org version) provides evidence that an extrasolar planet may be forming quite far from a small...
Doctoral student Karen Collins from the University of Louisville and her colleagues using the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) have discovered...
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have captured an image of a faint object circling the young, dusty, early-type star HD 95086. With a mass...
An international team of scientists from Israel and the United States has reported the first-ever discovery of an extrasolar planet using a novel method...
Using observations with NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earths in the habitable...
