Extrasolar Planets
Astronomers Find Seven New Planets
Image credit: NASA A team of European astronomers announced this week that they have discovered seven new planets, bringing the…
Some Planets Could Form In Just 3 Million Years
An Earth-like planet could come together from a cloud of dust in as short as 3 million years according to…
Furthest Extrasolar Planet Discovered
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced today that they have discovered a Jupiter-class planet orbiting a star 5,000…
New Planetary System has Familiar Feel
Image credit: NASA Planet hunters have discovered a new extrasolar system that looks remarkable like our own Solar System. Until…
Looking for More Earths
One of the most exciting fields of research in astronomy is the search for extrasolar planets, and eventually the search…
Search for Planets Gets Closer to Home
Image credit: NASA Locating the faint evidence of planets circling distant stars used to require high performance optics, like those…