NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first time. The system, known as a circumbinary planetary system, is 4,900 light-years…
Read the articleNASA’s Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too close…
Read the articleAstronomers have come up with a new way of identifying close, faint stars with NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer satellite. The technique should help in the hunt…
Read the articleArtist’s impression of exoplanet around a star Credits: ESA 2003. Illustration by AOES Medialab The Corot satellite strikes again with another fascinating planet discovery. This time,…
Read the articleAn artist’s concept of an exoplanet. Image credit: ESO. January 14, 2010: The premiere observatory of the next decade, the James Webb Space Telescope, will launch…
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