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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An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has discovered the first transiting circumbinary multi-planet system.
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An international team of astronomers using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope has found evidence of an extrasolar planet’s destruction by aging parent star.
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A team of European astrophysicists led by Dr Vardan Adibekyan of the Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, has found that metals like...
Astronomers have detected the first exoplanetary system with regularly aligned orbits similar to those in our Solar System.
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