Harvard Scientists Develop Interactive Website to Model Exoplanet Interiors
Scientists from the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University have developed a new interactive website that models the interiors of exoplanets. An interactive tool to…
Scientists from the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University have developed a new interactive website that models the interiors of exoplanets. An interactive tool to…
Using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have revealed that the actual visible-light color of exoplanet HD 189733b is deep blue. Astronomers making visible-light…
Using the Microvariability & Oscillations of Stars (MOST) space telescope, astronomers were able to estimate the true size and mass of super-Earth HD 97658b for…
Researchers from the University of Chicago and Northwestern University have published a new study that used computer simulations of cloud behavior to help suggest that…
Using data from Gemini Observatory’s Planet-Finding Campaign, several new studies reveal the nature of gas-giant exoplanets, finding that they tend to dwell near their parent…
By adding HARPS observations, along with data from several other telescopes, to previous data about Gliese 667C, a team of astronomers discovered that this system…
Using two telescopes at Okayama Astrophysical Observatory, scientists have observed the atmosphere of super-Earth exoplanet GJ3470b for the time, measuring the planetary mass, radius, and…
Using inexpensive ground-based telescopes, researchers discovered a hot Saturn-like exoplanet when its passed in front of it host star. A scientific team led by University…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have captured an image of the newly discovered planet HD95086 b, a planet with a predicted mass of only…
A rare stellar alignment will offer astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope two opportunities to search for Earth-like planets around the red dwarf Proxima Centauri….
NASA’s Kepler Mission delivers new data, adding 1,924 new KOIs detected over a 34-month baseline. On May 28, 2013, NASA’s Kepler mission delivered new data…
Researchers aim to analyze exoplanets in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum in order to better understand the surface composition of exoplanets and to…
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…
A newly published study and a four minute video from NASA Science explore the wild weather on exoplanets known as hot Jupiters. Among the hundreds…
Using the BEER algorithm, which relies on Einstein’s special theory of relativity, scientists discovered a new exoplanet known as Kepler-76b. Detecting alien worlds presents a…
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…