17 June 2019
Filling in the gaps of Jupiter-like planet formation
... astronomical units, or AU) where large gas giants like to congregate. "As you go out from the central star, giant planets become more frequent,” said Eugene Chiang, a UC Berkeley professor of astronomy and member of the collaboration's theory group...
27 October 2021
Astronomers may have detected the first planet outside of the Milky Way
... binary source in another galaxy. It stands to reason that our galaxy is not the only galaxy in which planets exist. But spotting planets in other galaxies is incredibly difficult to do. This is because each external galaxy occupies such a small area...
10 December 2021
Extreme exoplanet changes the picture about massive stars as planet hosts
... from the Sun. This large distance from the central pair of stars could be key to the planet’s survival. “The planet in b Centauri is an alien world in an environment that is completely different from what we experience here on Earth and in our...
11 January 2017
ESO Signs Agreement with Breakthrough Initiatives to search for planets nearby
...to greatly enhance its ability to find potentially habitable planets around the closest stellar system to Earth. VISIR,...to reveal any possible signatures of potential terrestrial-like planets. The new hardware includes an instrument module contracted ...
10 April 2017
Super-Jupiter mass planet found in the galactic bulge
... that is only a third the size of our Sun and is likely located in the Galactic bulge. The massive planet, known as MOA-2016-BLG-227Lb, was discovered by the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) collaboration who used...
01 September 2017
TRAPPIST-1 planets could contain substantial amounts of water
... the need for theoretical studies and complementary observations at all wavelengths to determine the nature of the TRAPPIST-1 planets and their potential habitability,” concludes Bourrier. With an anticipated launch date of October 2018 for the JWST...
