A new NOVA show airs tonight (October 19) in the US on public television, called "Finding Life Beyond Earth." It…
[/caption] Planetary scientists have not been able to agree that a turbulent period in our solar system’s history called the…
As the number of discovered extrasolar planets grows, astronomers begin looking at the next step: finding rocky Earth-like planets. In…
[/caption] Originally discovered by the Wide Angle Search for exoPlanets (WASP) survey in 2008, the eclipsing exoplanet WASP 10b has…
[/caption] Hip-hip hooray for citizen scientists! The first two exoplanet candidates have been identified by members of the public through…
[/caption] There’s a planet out there playing a game of ‘doorbell ditch’ with astronomers. Scientists can’t see this distant world,…
For many exoplanet systems that have been discovered by the radial velocity method, astronomers have found excess emission in the…
[/caption] It is our general understanding of solar system composition that planets fall into two categories: gas giants like Jupiter,…
[/caption] Hot on the heels of confirming one Kepler planet, the Hobby-Eberly Telescope announces the confirmation of another planet. Another…
[/caption] It has been known for several years that stars hosting planets are generally more rich in elements heavier than…