Where will we first find life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to ...

Earth," is situated in a relatively close region of the Milky Way Galaxy and resembles Earth in appearance but is many times ...

The team discovered that the surface might contain liquid water, an essential ingredient for life. Astronomers from the, Irvine have discovered a planet orbiting within the “habitable zone” of its ...

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

Learn how exoplanets are discovered, what makes planets beyond our solar system unique, and how they drive the ongoing search for alien life in the universe.

We have obtained a radial velocity curve for the L dwarf donor in WZ Sagittae using phase-resolved J-band spectra obtained with GNIRS on Gemini-north. We find a ...

A team of astronomers have used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) in Chile to shed new light on planets around a nearby star, L 98-59, that resemble those in the ...

A new instrument being built by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics for use in the Canary Islands will help NASA's planet-scouting Kepler spacecraft confirm and characterize potential ...

ABSTRACT Telluric absorption inside our coudé spectrograph is used as a reference spectrum for precise radial velocity measurement. The optical path for this telluric absorption is stable and is not ...

According to Paul Robertson, associate professor of physics and astronomy at UC Irvine, discovering new exoplanets is common ...