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Kepler discovers first multi-planet binary system
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered its first multiple-planet binary star system. The system, Kepler 47, is 4,900 light years away in the Cygnus constellation. While theorised, it has never been...
View ArticleFirst multiple exoplanet eclipse spotted by Kepler
A team from the University of Japan have found a unique occurrence in data from Kepler – the first multiple planet eclipse around a star called KOI-94. KOI-94 has a number of exoplanet candidates....
View ArticlePlanet Hunters strikes it rich: the first confirmed exoplanet in a four-star...
Yale’s Planethunters has its first exoplanet candidate confirmed by the Kepler mission – the first point for crowdsourced exoplanet hunting. With modern astronomy one of the most fundamental problems...
View ArticleExoplanet found just next door to Earth.
The ESO finds an exoplanet in orbit around Alpha Centauri b – the closest exoplanet found to our Solar System. Published in the journal Nature, a team from the European Southern Observatory has...
View ArticleNow Announcing TESS, NASA’s Next Planet-Hunter
NASA announced on April 6 that the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been selected for development in its latest round of Explorer-class mission proposals. The satellite is scheduled to...
View ArticleTwo Gliese 581 exoplanets revealed as data ghosts
A study released recently revealed that one of the most promising exoplanets discovered inside a nearby stars habitable zone might be no more than data ghosts caused by star activity. A couple of years...
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