Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet — but this time, the way they found it may be as significant as the discovery itself. Researchers used a breakthrough combination of indirect and direct ...
The discovery of Dimidium (51 Pegasi b) in 1995, utilizing the radial-velocity method, initiated a renaissance in planetary science, with the transit method later becoming a primary technique for ...
On Aug. 24, 2023, more than three decades after the first confirmation of planets beyond our own solar system, scientists announced the discovery of six new exoplanets, stretching that number to 5,502 ...
It was almost 100 years ago that Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto. That was the last planet found until 1992, when humans found another one. But this new planet wasn't in our solar system—it was ...
As the first successful technique used to detect exoplanets orbiting distant stars, the radial velocity method aims to detect a periodic Doppler shift in a stellar spectrum due to the star's motion ...
"It was just a matter of time before we found them." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Thirty years ago, on Oct. 6, 1995, the very ...
Artist’s rendition of variety of exoplanets featured in the new NASA TESS-Keck Survey Mass Catalog, the largest, single, homogenous analysis of TESS planets released by any survey thus far. The study ...
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