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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...