Extrasolar Planets

Hubble Confirms Comet-like Tail on Vaporizing Planet

Next time you hear someone complaining that it's too hot outside, you can make them feel better by pointing out…

11 years ago

Astronomers Watch Superstorm Raging on Distant Exoplanet

[/caption] Likely, future interstellar flights will not include the exoplanet HD209458b as a featured get-away destination. Not only is this…

11 years ago

Weird Collection of Worlds in the Latest Cache of CoRoT Expoplanets

[/caption] The CoRoT (Convection, Rotation and Transits) spacecraft has been busy, and using this exoplanet-finding-machine astronomers recently found six new…

11 years ago

Exoplanet Confirms Gas Giants Can Form Quickly

[/caption] For the first time, astronomers have been able to directly follow the motion of an exoplanet as it moves…

11 years ago

Wild and Crazy Multi-Planetary System Surprises Astronomers

[/caption] Astronomers are finding that not only are there a wide range of different extrasolar planets, but there are different…

12 years ago

Hubble Confirms Star is Devouring Hot Exoplanet

[/caption] We all like a hot meal, but this is really bizarre. Back in February, Jean wrote an article about…

12 years ago

Dropping a Bomb About Exoplanets

[/caption] Not all exoplanets are created equal, and new discoveries about the orbits of newly found extra solar planets could…

12 years ago

Finally, a “Normal” Exoplanet

[/caption] Chalk up another exoplanet discovery for the CoRoT satellite. But this planet, while a gas giant, could have temperatures…

12 years ago

Ripped to Shreds, Exoplanet Suffers Painful Death

[/caption] WASP-12b, discovered in 2008, is a real outlier among the 400 or so exoplanets discovered to date. Not that…

12 years ago

Astronomers Find Youngest Exoplanet Yet

[/caption] Overcoming interference from a very active young sun-like star, a group of astronomers were able to find what they…

12 years ago