More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...

Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a ...

For centuries, planets beyond our solar system—called exoplanets—existed only in ... planet-hunting technique to date has been radial velocity, also called the Doppler wobble, with more ...

Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...

These two techniques, the radial velocity and transit methods, respectively, have revealed 93 percent of all verified exoplanets. Radial velocity refers to a star's motion toward or away from us along ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A Jupiter-like exoplanet, GJ 2126 b, has been detected orbiting an M-dwarf star using the radial velocity method with the HARPS spectrograph. This exoplanet has ...

The four exoplanets orbit Barnard’s Star so closely that their years last only a few Earth days. They are probably rocky and, ...

Broadband Fabry–Pérot etalons are used as calibration sources in radial velocity exoplanet detection. This Article explores their performance limits and models the physical mechanism behind ...

These two techniques, the radial velocity and transit methods, respectively, have revealed 93 percent of all verified exoplanets. This artist’s view shows 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet ...