Kepler-76b: A Hot Jupiter with Superrotation
Researchers used the BEEER algorithm to identify a hot Jupiter in the Kepler light curve, Kepler-76b. Eight hundred and eighty nine exoplanets (planets around stars…
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The Wild Weather of Hot Jupiters
A newly published study and a four minute video from NASA Science explore the wild weather on exoplanets known as hot Jupiters. A new ScienceCast…
BEER Algorithm Identifies Exoplanet Kepler-76b
Using the BEER algorithm, which relies on Einstein’s special theory of relativity, scientists discovered a new exoplanet known as Kepler-76b. Cambridge, Masschusetts – Detecting alien…
Project 1640 Reveals Precise Composition Information about Four HR 8799 Planets
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…
Hubble Finds Planetary Debris Whirling Around Two White Dwarfs
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…
NASA’s Spitzer Helps Researchers Get a Closer Look at Hot Jupiters
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 Extrasolar Planets KOI-200b and KOI-889b Detected
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,…
Astronomers Use “Characterization by Proxy” to Learn the Nature of Kepler-61
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…
Water Planets in the Habitable Zone: A Closer Look at Kepler 62e and 62f
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…
Kepler Mission Discovers Two New Planetary Systems with ‘Habitable Zone’ Planets
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered several new habitable-zone planets in two new planetary systems, Kepler-69 and Kepler-62. NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary…
Researchers Observed the Atmosphere of a Jupiter-Like Planet Beyond Our Solar System
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…
The First Remote Reconnaissance of Another Solar System
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,…
Kepler Finds Over 2,300 Candidate 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…
The First Direct Observation of a Forming Planet?
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…
The Search for Exoplanets Intensifies
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…
Direct Infrared Image of the Protoplanetary Disk Around a Young Star
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…
Earth-like Planets May Have Older and More Evolved Life
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…
New Insights into How Retrograde Planets May Form and Endure
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…
