28 New Planets, 7 New Brown Dwarfs
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Honolulu, HawaiiÂ -- The world's largest and most prolific team of planet hunters announced Monday the discovery of 28 new planets outside our solar system, increasing to 236 the total number of known exoplanets.University of California, Berkeley, post-doctoral fellow Jason T.
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AN Irish astronomer has discovered a giant planet orbiting a distant star using simple backyard telescopes.   Francis O'Donovan's team found the new world, - larger than Jupiter - orbiting a star 500 light years away in the Draco the Dragon constellation.  (c) 2006 Daily Mirror.
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Astronomers write a new definition that officially makes Pluto a planet. But that means 2003 UB313 is one too
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Two Neptune-sized planets have been discovered circling stars beyond our Solar System, US astronomers reported on Tuesday. The discoveries, which come less than a week after a similar announcement by European
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The leading theory of how planets form is being revised because of new observations from the US Spitzer Space Telescope. The process is not as smooth and quiet as once thought, but rather the result of violent collisions between massive space rocks.
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Astronomers have discovered a new class of planets outside the solar system that hug their parent stars so tightly they take less than a day to complete an orbit.
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Astronomers have found the latest planet in another solar system â-r &quot;exoplanet&quot; â -ng telescopes no bigger than those you might find at a garage sale.
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Washington - A new class of planets has been found orbiting stars besides our sun, in a possible giant leap forward in the search for Earth-like planets that might harbour life.
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A new class of planets has been  found orbiting stars besides our sun, in a possible giant leap  forward in the search for Earth-like planets that might harbor  life, scientists said on Tuesday.
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Astronomers announce recent discoveries of two Earth-like planets.
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BOSTON American scientists say they have discovered two of the smallest planets ever detected outside our solar system - a sign, they said, that they are on the right track in the quest to find Earth-like planets that could potentially support life.
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Astronomers scouring nearby stars have found two planets that mirror Neptune in size, making them by far the smallest found outside the solar system.
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Astronomers find a strange new world that has them pondering again the essential properties of a planet.
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Two separate teams of astronomers find Neptune-size planets beyond our solar system. Earth-like planets are just around the corner, they say. By Amit Asaravala.
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For the first time in almost two years, there are no bright planets in the evening sky. You might as well stay inside and eat dinner. The morning sky, on the other hand, is sparkling. Mercury. Venus. Saturn. A slender crescent Moon. The luminous stars of Orion. They're all on display in the days ahead: Sept. 10th through 12th.
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Planet-seekers who have spotted 28 new planets orbiting other stars in the past year say Earth's solar system is far from unique and there could be billions of habitable planets.
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A University of Colorado study has embarked on demonstrating that new planets can be found with the help of an orbiting starshade. The method has been compared to building a giant pinhole camera in space.