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May 14, 2015NASA's Kepler spacecraft began hunting for planets outside our solar system on May 12, 2009. -
May 2, 2015The Australian discovery of a strange exoplanet orbiting a small cool star 500 light years away is challenging ideas about how planets form. -
Apr 29, 2015A team of astronomers using ground-based telescopes recently discovered a planetary system orbiting a nearby star that is only 54 light-years away. -
Apr 22, 2015Astronomers using the HARPS planet-hunting machine at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile have made the first-ever direct detection of the spectrum of visible light reflected off an exoplanet. -
Apr 21, 2015NASA announced this week the creation of the Nexus for Exoplanet Systems Science network that will study planets beyond our solar system for habitability. -
Apr 20, 2015Astronomers have probed deeper than before into a planetary system 130 light-years from Earth. -
Apr 16, 2015Space telescopes may one day make use of glitter-like materials to help take images of new worlds, according to JPL researchers. -
Apr 15, 2015NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has teamed up with a telescope on the ground to find a remote gas planet about 13,000 light-years away, making it one of the most distant planets known. -
Jan 28, 2015Astronomers have discovered that the ring system that they see eclipse the young Sun-like star J1407 is much larger and heavier than the ring system of Saturn. -
Jan 27, 2015Scientists have located an ancient solar system, dating back to the dawn of the galaxy, which appears to be a miniature version of the inner planets in our own solar system.
