Extrasolar Planets
How Well Can Astronomers Study Exoplanet Atmospheres?
[/caption] Exoplanet discoveries are happening at a frenetic pace, and some of the latest newly discovered worlds are sometimes described…
11 New Planetary Systems… 26 New Planets… Kepler Racks ‘Em Up!
[/caption] Eleven ball in the side pocket. Whack! And another 26 planets are discovered! NASA just announced the latest tally…
New Research Suggests Fomalhaut b May Not Be a Planet After All
[/caption] When the Hubble Space Telescope photographed the apparent exoplanet Fomalhaut b in 2008, it was regarded as the first…
British TV Audience Discovers Potential New Planet
[/caption] A public “mass participation” push initiated on a UK television program to find planets beyond our Solar System has…
Goldilocks Moons
[/caption] The search for extraterrestrial life outside our Solar System is currently focused on extrasolar planets within the 'habitable zones'…
Astronomers Find Saturn’s Possible Cosmic Doppelgänger
[/caption] By analyzing the silhouette of an exoplanet passing in front of its parent star some 420 light years from…
Tatooine the Sequel: Kepler Finds Two More Exoplanets Orbiting Binary Stars
[/caption] For exoplanet fans, this week has been an exciting one, with some amazing new discoveries being announced at the American…
Scientists Find Trio of Tiny Exoplanets
[/caption] NASA’s Kepler mission has detected no shortage of planets; more than a thousand candidates were discovered in 2011, a…
Microlensing Study Says Every Star in the Milky Way has Planets
[/caption] How common are planets in the Milky Way? A new study using gravitational microlensing suggests that every star in…
Exomoons? <em>Kepler</em>‘s On The Hunt
[/caption] Recently, I posted an article on the feasibility of detecting moons around extrasolar planets. It was determined that exceptionally…