SCIENCE
Little star sheds light on young planets
Early in 2017, Assistant Professor Yoko Oya gave graduate student Yuki Okoda some recent complex data on a nearby star with which she could begin her Ph.D. Little…
planets
SCIENCE
Ultrahot planets have starlike atmospheres
Recent observations by NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes of ultrahot Jupiter-like planets have perplexed theorists. The spectra of these planets have…
SCIENCE
Largest haul of extrasolar planets
Forty-four planets in solar systems beyond our own have been unveiled in one go, dwarfing the usual number of confirmations from extrasolar…
INDIA
Star system with three Earth-sized planets discovered
Researchers from Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Oviedo in Spain analysed the data collected by the K2…