Yet another planet outside of our Solar System has been directly imaged, bumping the list up past ten. Given that…
For decades, astronomers have known our Sun contains a low amount of lithium, while other solar-like stars actually have more.…
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captured this infrared image of a giant halo of very fine dust around the young star…
[/caption] A glitch in the Kepler spacecraft's electronics means the space telescope will not have the ability to spot an…
[/caption] The basic chemistry for life has been detected the atmosphere of a second hot gas planet, HD 209458b. Data…
[/caption] Astronomers have found 32 new planets outside our solar system with the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, better…
[/caption] If any creature lives on COROT-7b, the recently confirmed rocky exoplanet, they might think the sky is falling. This…
[/caption] The holy grail in the search for extrasolar planets will be the discovery of Earthlike planets orbiting other stars.…
[/caption] Planet hunters from the UK have discovered the largest exoplanet yet, and its uniqueness doesn't end there. Dubbed WASP-17,…