A team of researchers from the University of St. Andrews recently announced the discovery of three new planets orbiting a sun almost 1,000 light years away from Earth. The new Jupiter-sized planets are orbiting their stars so closely that according ...

Scientists discovered what seems to be the first conclusive evidence for water on an extrasolar planet. The discovery was made by French scientists using data from NASA’s Spitzer space telescope and was recently published in the scientific magazine Nature. In ...

In 2003 NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. The findings have been published on Feb. 1 2007 in a letter to the journal Nature by researchers from the University of ...

Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets (an Illustration picture) – NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars in the central region of our Milky Way galaxy. The planet bonanza was uncovered during a ...