AJupiter-like planet has been discovered orbiting one of the smallest starsknown, suggesting that planets could be more common than previously thought. This exoplanetfinding is the first discovery for ...

What if the universe’s most intriguing worlds are those we can barely see?” OASIS, the Observing Accelerators with SCExAO Imaging Survey, aims to pair the accuracy of space-based astrometry ...

Have scientists finally confirmed the existence of the first exomoon? This is what a study released on the preprint server arXiv, and accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics, hopes to ...

Researchers for half a century have tried — and failed — to use the motion of stars moving across the sky to discover planets that lie beyond the solar system. Now a team has finally used the method, ...

The discovery of a Jupiter-like exoplanet orbiting the star VB 10 is the first to be made using the astrometry method. Astrometry is based on measuring small changes in a star's position. At ...

Chinese astronomers have proposed a space telescope survey program to search for habitable exoplanets some 32 light-years from Earth. This would be the world's first space exploration mission ...

Chinese researchers have discovered a promising mass-gap black hole using radial velocity and astrometry methods. The study was published online in Nature Astronomy on Sept. 10, and was conducted by a ...

A new gas giant exoplanet, HIP 99770 b, approximately 15 times the mass of Jupiter and orbiting a star almost twice the mass of our Sun, has been directly imaged. The discovery utilized a combined ...

A distant "sun" residing in the constellation Aquila has become the smallest star known to host a planet. The discovery of a Jupiter-like "exoplanet" orbiting the star VB 10 is the first to be made ...