Astronomers discover new ‘hot Jupiter’ spinning up its parent star
A giant 'hot Jupiter' exoplanet was recently discovered by an international team of astronomers which was led by Kaloyan Penev of Princeton University.
Jun 09, 2016, 12:18 PM IST
Did our Sun steal 'Planet 9' 4.5 billion years ago?
Computer-simulated study suggests that our sun, in its youth some 4.5 billion years ago, stole Planet 9 from its original star.
Jun 01, 2016, 14:29 PM IST
Astronomers find Earth-like planet that may support life
Scientists have found a new exoplanet like Earth that could support human life and it is some 1200 light years away from our planet.
May 31, 2016, 09:41 AM IST
Kepler 62f: An exoplanet 1200 light years away may be habitable!
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May 28, 2016, 19:56 PM IST
NASA's Kepler spacecraft discovers new 'hot Jupiter'
The astronomers also used three different ground-based spectrographs to conduct high-resolution spectroscopic observations of K2-29b, in order to definitely verify it as a "hot Jupiter."
Apr 14, 2016, 18:07 PM IST
Temperature map of super-Earth reveals a world of lava - Watch!
The map of super-Earth 55 Cancri e was created using temperature data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
Mar 31, 2016, 18:55 PM IST
Map of rocky exoplanet reveals lava world
An international team of astronomers has obtained the most detailed 'fingerprint' of a rocky planet outside our solar system to date, and found a planet of two halves: one that is almost completely molten, and the other which is almost completely solid.
Mar 31, 2016, 14:42 PM IST
Gas giant planet discovered near Milky Way's bulge
Scientists have detected a strong light curve signal coming from OGLE-2014-BLG-1760.
Mar 27, 2016, 17:01 PM IST
NASA's Hubble directly measures rotation of cloudy 'super-Jupiter
The planet, called 2M1207b, is about four times more massive than Jupiter and is dubbed a "super-Jupiter."
Feb 19, 2016, 13:50 PM IST
For first time, alien planet caught in birth act
For the first time ever, a team of astronomers has directly observed a planet in the process of being born.
Nov 19, 2015, 08:51 AM IST
Wind hurtles across this exoplanet at 5400 mph
The wind speed recorded is 20x greater than the fastest ever known on earth, where it would be seven times the speed of sound.
Nov 14, 2015, 15:35 PM IST
Newly-found earth-sized rocky planet too hot for life
Scientists have discovered a new exoplanet that, in the language of "Star Wars," would be the polar opposite of frigid Hoth, and even more inhospitable than the deserts of Tatooine.
Nov 12, 2015, 16:43 PM IST
Watch: The search for another Earth!
51 Pegasi b was the first planet to be discovered orbiting a main-sequence star, the Sun-like 51 Pegasi.
Nov 08, 2015, 12:52 PM IST
20 years ago astronomers discovered the first planet outside our solar system
51 Pegasi b was the first planet spotted around a “normal” star like our Sun.
Oct 08, 2015, 18:42 PM IST
