Using infrared cameras equipped with spectrographs at the Palomar Observatory in California, Project 1640 was able to get precise composition information about four planets around…
The Hubble Space Telescope has detected signs of Earth-like planets in debris whirling around two white dwarfs, finding silicon in the stars’ atmospheres and detecting…
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers are taking a closer look at exoplanets known as Hot Jupiters, revealing a wide range of climates, raging winds…
Two new transiting, close-in, giant extrasolar planets KOI-200b and KOI-889b, have been detected and characterized with Kepler, SOPHIE and HARPS-N. An international team of astronomers,…
Using “characterization by proxy” and observations from the Kepler Space Telescope, researchers take a closer look at Kepler-61b, a planet orbiting near the inner edge…
In a new paper, astronomers explore the properties Kelper 62e and 62f, which are part of the five-planet system orbiting the star Kepler-62, suggesting that…
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered several new habitable-zone planets in two new planetary systems, Kepler-69 and Kepler-62. Offett Field, California — NASA’s Kepler mission has…
Using a high resolution imaging spectrograph, researchers have observed the atmosphere of a Jupiter like planet beyond our Solar System in unprecedented detail, uncovering the…
A team of astronomers have conducted the first remote reconnaissance of another solar system, collecting the first chemical fingerprints of this system’s four red exoplanets,…
In a newly released study, researchers state that the Kepler spacecraft has found over 2,300 candidate exoplanets in its observations during the first sixteen months…
While studying the disc of gas and dust that surrounds the young star HD 100546, scientists believe they have detected the formation of a gas…
Aided by technology, astronomers at the University of Chicago search for far-off planets like Earth. When astronomers discovered planet GJ 1214b circling a star more…
Using the high-resolution infrared camera HiCIAO, an international group of astronomers captured the first vivid infrared image of a curved arm of dust extending over…
Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics believe that six percent of red dwarf stars have habitable, Earth-sized planets. Since red dwarfs live much longer…
Astronomers continue to research the HAT-P-7 planetary system, looking for new insights into how retrograde planets may form and endure. Astronomers have used the Subaru…
By analyzing planets orbiting a star called Kepler-32, astronomers at Caltech estimate that there are at least 100 billion planets in our galaxy. Pasadena, California…
Using the HATNet telescopes, CfA astronomers and colleagues discovered three new hot Jupiters and identified a new subclass of extra-solar planets, dubbed “highly inflated Jupiters.”…
The French space agency CNES has announced that the Convection, Rotation and Planetary Transits (CoRoT) satellite is on its last legs. The satellite suffered a…
