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So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

For centuries, planets beyond our solar system—called exoplanets—existed only in theory and science fiction. It seemed nearly impossible to detect planets light-years away, since the ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

Broadband Fabry–Pérot etalons are used as calibration sources in radial velocity exoplanet detection. This Article explores their performance limits and models the physical mechanism behind ...

But finding such extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, is not easy — even ... that can image objects much deeper in space. The first pictures of Earthlike worlds may come from enormous ground ...

Editor’s note: This article on ... in producing incredible pictures, but in providing more detailed and accurate data on celestial objects themselves. Knowing which exoplanets host water and ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A physics student at Reed College has discovered eight new possible exoplanets in the Milky Way. His name is Mohamed Jassim Munavar Hussain, and he's an international student ...