Yale researchers have discovered that a rocky super-Earth orbiting a nearby star is a diamond planet.
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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.
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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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Astronomers using the Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered what they believe is a planet two-thirds the size of Earth.
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An international team of astrophysicists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected meteorological variations in the atmosphere of the exoplanet...
An international team of astronomers has discovered a bigger version of Earth locked in an orbital tug-of-war with a much larger, Neptune-sized planet...
A team of astronomers has detected a possible planet, some 1,500 light years away, that appears to be evaporating under the blistering heat of its parent...
Astronomers have discovered a brown dwarf that is more than 99 % hydrogen and helium.
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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...
