In a wild turn of cosmic events, a group of astronomers is trying to reclaim the role of having made the first photograph of a planet around another star. They may have to wait for history to award ...
Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers at the University of Arizona have taken the first direct, time-resolved images of an exoplanet. Their results were published today in The Astrophysical ...
Austin, TX — Astronomers announced today that a mystery object orbiting a star 170 light-years from Earth might have formed from the collision and merger of two protoplanets. The object, known as ...
Astronomers announced today that a mystery object orbiting a star 170 light-years from Earth might have formed from the collision and merger of two protoplanets. The object, known as 2M1207B, has ...
AUSTIN, Texas – An extrasolar planet about one-fourth the heft of Jupiter might have formed from the collision and merger of two planets, astronomers announced Wednesday. Known as 2M1207B, the object ...
Artists concept of the "super-Jupiter" and brown dwarf observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI) At a distance of 170 light-years from Earth, there's a planet seven times ...