[/caption] Editor’s note – Bruce Dorminey is a science journalist and author of Distant Wanderers: The Search for Planets beyond…
[/caption] When the Hubble Space Telescope photographed the apparent exoplanet Fomalhaut b in 2008, it was regarded as the first…
[/caption] The search for extraterrestrial life outside our Solar System is currently focused on extrasolar planets within the 'habitable zones'…
[/caption] By analyzing the silhouette of an exoplanet passing in front of its parent star some 420 light years from…
[/caption] For exoplanet fans, this week has been an exciting one, with some amazing new discoveries being announced at the American…
[/caption] How common are planets in the Milky Way? A new study using gravitational microlensing suggests that every star in…
[/caption] As the Kepler space telescope begins finding its first Earth-sized exoplanets, with the ultimate goal of finding ones that…
[/caption] It's only a few days into 2012 and already some new exoplanet discoveries have been announced. As 2011 ended,…
[/caption] Amid all of the news last week regarding the discovery by Kepler of two Earth-sized planets orbiting another star,…
[/caption] December 2011 will go down in history as the first time humanity was able to detect an Earth-sized planet…