Apr 2, 2019 by Natali Anderson

A team of researchers from Google Brain, the University of Texas at Austin, MIT, the University of California, Berkeley, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for...

Mar 27, 2019 by Natali Anderson

An international team of astronomers has discovered a hot rocky and a warm puffy super-Earth exoplanets orbiting the 7.5-billion-year-old star HD 15337. An...

Mar 20, 2019 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have discovered a planetary system containing at least three small planets, orbiting...

Feb 28, 2019 by News Staff

The presence of a new planet on the outskirts of the Solar System was proposed by Caltech astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown in 2016 to explain...

Jan 21, 2019 by Natali Anderson

An international team of astronomers has found a ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet orbiting HD 285181, a 3.7-billion-year-old solar-type star approximately 294...

Nov 14, 2018 by News Staff

A potentially rocky super-Earth orbits one of our closest stellar neighbors, Barnard’s star, only 6 light-years away. An artist’s impression of Barnard’s...

Oct 2, 2018 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers have discovered a ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star 473 light-years from Earth. An artist’s impression of the super-Earth...

Sep 24, 2018 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite have discovered a super-Earth orbiting an unusually bright, Sun-like star called...

Jul 30, 2018 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet with several times the mass of the Earth orbiting a nearby star. A paper reporting this discovery is published...

Jun 20, 2018 by Sergio Prostak

An extrasolar planet larger than the Earth has been discovered orbiting a nearby cool star, thanks to data gathered by NASA’s Kepler/K2 mission. Artist’s...

Jun 13, 2018 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using data from NASA’s Kepler K2 mission have discovered two new planetary systems, one of which contains two super-Earths and the other...

Mar 28, 2018 by Natali Anderson

An international team of astronomers has discovered a planetary system containing at least three massive planets, orbiting the bright late-G/early-K-type...

Feb 16, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers using data from NASA’s extended Kepler mission, known as K2, have discovered 95 new exoplanets, with sizes ranging from mostly rocky super-Earths...

Feb 14, 2018 by News Staff

A bright K-type dwarf star called Gliese 9827 hosts one of the most massive (and dense) super-Earths detected to date, according to a study to be published...

Jan 29, 2018 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using data from the NASA Kepler spacecraft’s reborn K2 mission have found a triple system of super-Earth exoplanets around a cool star called...

Jan 16, 2018 by News Staff

An international team of citizen scientists and professional astronomers has discovered a system of at least five massive exoplanets, orbiting the Sun-like...

Dec 6, 2017 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has found that a little-known exoplanet called K2-18b could be a scaled-up version of Earth, and also discovered the...

Nov 20, 2017 by News Staff

A hot, rocky exoplanet called 55 Cancri e likely has an atmosphere thicker than Earth’s, with ingredients that could be similar to those of Earth’s...

Oct 16, 2017 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using data from the NASA Kepler spacecraft’s reborn K2 mission have discovered a planetary system containing at least three exoplanets, orbiting...

Oct 12, 2017 by News Staff

A new study in the Astronomical Journal finds that giant exoplanets with long-period orbits are more likely to be found around young stars that have a...