Extrasolar Planets Closest ‘Earth-like’ World Orbiting a Calm Star DiscoveredNovember 16, 2017 Astronomers have discovered a new Earth-like planet. It was detected using the European Southern Observatory’s High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet…
Astronomy Astronomers observe pitch black planetOctober 4, 2017 Astronomers have discovered a spectacular planet. Almost no light is reflected from the strange, extremely hot gas planet. Recently, a…
Extrasolar Planets NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope Discovers 1,284 PlanetsMay 12, 2016 The space telescope Kepler has found 1,284 new planets outside our solar system, the U.S. space agency NASA reports. The…