Approximately one out of every ten stars have a planet roughly the size of the Earth with an orbit that, if there was water and atmosphere, would create a temperature and climate roughly that same as ...

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Astrophysicists have discovered for the first time a population of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Using microlensing -- an astronomical phenomenon and the only known method capable of ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have made independent confirmations of an exoplanet orbiting far from its central star. The planet was discovered through a ...

Astronomers have used the sharp vision of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to repeat a century-old test of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. The team measured the mass of white dwarf Stein 2051 B, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Since 1995 scientists have found more than 5,000 exoplanets—other ...

In a new study submitted to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and made available as a preprint on arVix.org, a team of astronomers detected an exoplanet using the microlensing ...

Separate teams today announced the discoveries of three planets outside our solar system, including one that is more than three times farther away than the previous record holder. Tricks used to find ...

There should be hundreds of millions of black holes in the entire Milky Way galaxy, which are thought to be formed by the collapse of a huge celestial body, but since black holes do not emit light, ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, found a planet orbiting a binary star system using microlensing. Gravitational lensing is a technique that made its name by aiding in the discovery of galaxies.