A team of astronomers, including a researcher from Ohio State, located a planet orbiting two stars that resembles the planet Tatooine from the movie series “Star Wars.” Using a technique known as the ...

With few unexplored regions left on Earth for those with the itch for exploration, planets around other stars are the new terra incognita. Beyond the inimitable coolness of outer space, exoplanets ...

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 ...

THERE are two main ways of detecting new planets: the radial-velocity method and the transit technique. The first relies on the fact that a planet orbiting a star tugs it gently so that it oscillates ...

Astronomers have long relied on two main methods to detect exoplanets—the transit method, which looks for dips in a star’s ...

Using the radial velocity method, an international team of astronomers has discovered a new extrasolar planet orbiting a nearby star known as GI 410. The newfound alien world was classified as a ...

A rare exoplanet that orbits two suns like the planet Tatooine in Star Wars has been detected by an unusual method for the first time. Specifically, Kepler-16b has been detected by a ground-based ...

Proxima c, a candidate second planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, was detected with the radial velocity method. The announced long orbital period (5.21+0.26−0.22 years), and small semi-amplitude of the ...