Aug 21, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers reporting in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org) has discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet called Kepler 78b that...

Aug 6, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii have captured a direct image of an exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star. This composite image shows the...

Jul 11, 2013 by Natali Anderson

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...

Jul 2, 2013 by News Staff

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...

Jun 27, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international group of astronomers reporting in the journal Nature has discovered two extrasolar planets circling Sun-like stars in the open star cluster...

Jun 25, 2013 by News Staff

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...

Jun 15, 2013 by News Staff

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...

Jun 5, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Doctoral student Karen Collins from the University of Louisville and her colleagues using the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) have discovered...

Jun 3, 2013 by Natali Anderson

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...

May 14, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

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...

Apr 19, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Using observations with NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earths in the habitable...

Mar 15, 2013 by News Staff

A team of astronomers has made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere of a Jupiter-size extrasolar planet. Artist’s rendering of the...

Mar 4, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of astronomers led by Dr Sascha Quanz from the ETH Zurich’s Institute for Astronomy, Switzerland, has obtained what is likely the...

Feb 26, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A new theoretical study of Earth-like exoplanets orbiting white dwarf stars, accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical...

Feb 21, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has made the first observations of a planet outside our Solar System that’s...

Feb 7, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Dr David Charbonneaua and Dr Courtney Dressing, astronomers with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, suggest that about 6 percent of red dwarf...

Jan 9, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers from the University of California in Berkeley and the Clarion University in Pennsylvania using 2.1-m telescope of the McDonald Observatory...

Jan 8, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Amateur astronomers from Planethunters.org have discovered a Jupiter-sized planet and 42 new planet candidates, including 14 objects in the habitable zones...

Dec 19, 2012 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers led by Dr Mikko Tuomi of the University of Hertfordshire have discovered that the nearby star Tau Ceti may host five exoplanets – with...

Nov 27, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers has published a list of 165 young low-mass stars and brown dwarfs within 100 light-years of Sun – targets for...