Extrasolar Planets
Searching For Life on Non-Earthlike Planets
Image credit: NASA A team of astronomers from Ohio State University believe that we should be seeking life on a…
Hubble Identifies the Oldest Known Planet
Image credit: Hubble The Hubble Space Telescope was recently used to identify the oldest extrasolar planet ever discovered. The 2.5…
New Observatories Could Spot Waterworlds
Image credit: ESA The European Space Agency is planning a series of space-based observatories designed to search space for evidence…
Similar Solar System Discovered
Image credit: PPARC A team of international astronomers have discovered a planet which is remarkably similar to Jupiter. This new…
Astronomers Find Seven New Planets
Image credit: NASA A team of European astronomers announced this week that they have discovered seven new planets, bringing the…
Some Planets Could Form In Just 3 Million Years
An Earth-like planet could come together from a cloud of dust in as short as 3 million years according to…
Furthest Extrasolar Planet Discovered
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announced today that they have discovered a Jupiter-class planet orbiting a star 5,000…
New Planetary System has Familiar Feel
Image credit: NASA Planet hunters have discovered a new extrasolar system that looks remarkable like our own Solar System. Until…
Looking for More Earths
One of the most exciting fields of research in astronomy is the search for extrasolar planets, and eventually the search…
Search for Planets Gets Closer to Home
Image credit: NASA Locating the faint evidence of planets circling distant stars used to require high performance optics, like those…