Extrasolar Planets
‘Invisible’ World Discovered Around a Distant Star
[/caption] There’s a planet out there playing a game of ‘doorbell ditch’ with astronomers. Scientists can’t see this distant world,…
Where’s the Debris for Transiting Planets?
For many exoplanet systems that have been discovered by the radial velocity method, astronomers have found excess emission in the…
HARPS Tunes In On Habitable Planet
[/caption] Using the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), a team of scientists at University of Geneva, Switzerland, led…
Shedding Some Light on a Dark Discovery
[/caption] Earlier this month astronomers released news of the darkest exoplanet ever seen: discovered in 2006, the gas giant TrES-2b…
Cosmic Collisions Could Eject Habitable Planets
[/caption] When it comes to solar systems, chances are good that we're a lot more special than we thought. According…
Q&A with Brian Cox, part 2: Space Exploration and Hopes for the Future
[/caption] Professor Brian Cox is the Chair in Particle Physics at the University of Manchester, and works on the ATLAS…
White Dwarf Stars Consume Rocky Bodies
[/caption] "I love rocky road... So won't you buy another gallon, baby..." Yeah. We all love rocky road ice cream,…
Astronomers Discover a Dark Alien World
[/caption] An exoplanet has been discovered by astronomers that reflects less than one percent of the light it receives from…
HARPS Tunes In On “Noisy” Planets
[/caption] Able to achieve an astounding precision of 0.97 m/s (3.5 km/h), with an effective precision of the order of…
Coming To A Solar System Near You… Super-Earth!
[/caption] It is our general understanding of solar system composition that planets fall into two categories: gas giants like Jupiter,…