Astronomers using the GRAVITY instrument at the VLT telescopes in Chile have now obtained the first direct confirmation of an exoplanet discovered by radial velocity. As the planet “Beta Pictoris c” ...

Michael Endl is on a mission: As a research scientist with the University of Texas at Austin, he hopes the sum of his astronomy career will be a chart characterizing exoplanets, like you might find on ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

Exoplanets, short for `extra solar planets’, are planets outside our solar system. They are objects with masses less than around 15 Jupiter-masses that orbit stars other than the Sun. They are small ...

An international collaboration of researchers has identified a rocky exoplanet half the size of Venus, making it the lowest-mass planet measured so far. They published their findings in Astronomy and ...

KOI-5Ab is a newly discovered planet in a triple-star system. It is a great example of the kind of astonishing discoveries that result from cooperation between large teams of astronomers using ...

A team of astronomers have shed new light on planets around a nearby star, L 98-59, that resemble those in the inner Solar System. Amongst the findings are a planet with half the mass of Venus -- the ...

Astronomers have discovered Gl725Bc, the second closest potentially habitable exoplanet to the Earth. The discovery was made ...

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for “contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos”. Half the prize went to cosmologist Jim Peebles, ...

These schematic images show the geometry of the Beta Pictoris system: The image on the left shows both the star and the two planets embedded in the dusty disk in the orientation as visible from the ...