Tag Archive for Exoplanet

NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 extrasolar planets. According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, these...

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. The...

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...

NASA’s Kepler mission detected Kepler-16b, the closest astronomers have come to discovering Luke Skywalker’s home world of Tatooine, according...

The HARPS team led by Michel Mayor from University of Geneva, Switzerland, announced the discovery of more than 50 new exoplanets orbiting nearby stars,...

Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have discovered that the dwarf planet 2007 OR10 — nicknamed Snow White — is an icy...

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...