Astronomers have discovered a brown dwarf that is more than 99 % hydrogen and helium.
Artist’s impression shows BD+01 2920B in the foreground, on the...
An international group of scientists led by the University of Buckingham in UK has claimed that life-bearing planets may exist in vast numbers in the space...
European astrophysicists using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered four white dwarfs surrounded by dust from shattered planetary bodies which once...
Australian researchers have suggested that finding rocky, Earth-like exoplanets that can sustain life will be crucial for us as a species.
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An international team of astronomers has found compelling evidence for two low-mass planets orbiting the nearby star Fomalhaut, just 25 light years from...
An international team of astronomers working with the HARPS spectrograph on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has found...
An international team of astronomers has discovered an ancient planetary system that is likely to be a survivor from one of the earliest cosmic eras.
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A team of researchers has confirmed the possibility of existence of hypervelocity planets, which zoom through space at a few percent of the speed of light...
An international team of researchers, led by Dr. Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution and Dr. Guillem Anglada-Escudé of the University of Gottingen,...
An international team of astrophysicists has discovered the ruins of a planetary system consisting of the cores of two former giant planets orbiting around...
NASA’s Kepler mission has detected two extrasolar Earth-sized planets, reported in a press release from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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The Kepler mission has discovered the first super-Earth in the habitable zone of a distant Sun-like star, according to NASA.
The newly found planet Kepler-22b...
A team of astronomers has discovered 18 Jupiter-like planets in orbit around massive stars, stated in a press release from the California Institute of...
The HARPS team led by Michel Mayor from University of Geneva, Switzerland, announced the discovery of more than 50 new exoplanets orbiting nearby stars,...
Our solar system, where planets have a range of sizes and move in near-circular paths, may be rather unusual, according to a German-British team led by...
