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...
A new theoretical study of Earth-like exoplanets orbiting white dwarf stars, accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical...
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...
Dr David Charbonneaua and Dr Courtney Dressing, astronomers with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, suggest that about 6 percent of red dwarf...
Astronomers from the University of California in Berkeley and the Clarion University in Pennsylvania using 2.1-m telescope of the McDonald Observatory...
Amateur astronomers from Planethunters.org have discovered a Jupiter-sized planet and 42 new planet candidates, including 14 objects in the habitable zones...
An international team of astronomers using infrared data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii has discovered a super-Jupiter around the star Kappa Andromedae.
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An international team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope has detected a rogue planet, an interstellar...
A team of citizen scientists and professional astronomers has discovered a circumbinary planet in a huge four-star system some 5,000 light years away.
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European astronomers using HARPS instrument on the 3.6-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, Chile, have discovered an exoplanet with about the...
Yale researchers have discovered that a rocky super-Earth orbiting a nearby star is a diamond planet.
This illustration shows the interior of 55 Cancri...
Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have detected magnesium-rich material in a dust belt around the young star Beta Pictoris.
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Using a method called reconstructive speckle imaging, a team of astronomers at the Gemini Observatory has captured the sharpest ground-based image ever...
Astronomers have for the first time discovered planets orbiting Sun-like stars in a star cluster.
An artist’s impression of one of the two gas giant...
European astronomers using ESO’s HARPS planet finder have discovered a new super-Earth in the habitable zone around the red dwarf star Gliese 163.
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