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In recent years we have witnessed a veritable flood of extrasolar planetary discoveries from NASA’s Kepler mission which watches for regular decreases in a star’s brightness […]
It has turned out that 2015 has been a banner year for the search for potentially habitable planets. It started on January 6 at a meeting […]
Note: An updated review of Wolf 359 can be found in “The Real Wolf 359 Revisited – New Planetary Discoveries“. Over the past couple of […]
I still have a clear memory of waiting in anticipation of the premier episode of the now classic sci-fi television show, Lost in Space, which first […]
With a V magnitude of -1.46, Sirius is by far the brightest star in our nighttime sky. Located in the constellation of Canis Major (the Greater […]
It has been almost two decades since the first extrasolar planets were discovered orbiting Sun-like stars using precision radial velocity measurements. But as more accurate instruments […]
For over half a century, controversy has swirled around Barnard’s Star and the possibility it could harbor extrasolar planets. Back when I was growing up in […]
About two and a half years ago, the web was filled with stories about the announcement of an Earth-size extrasolar planet discovered orbiting our Sun-like next […]
Back in July 2014, the press was filled with stories about the apparent disappearance of two potentially habitable extrasolar planets thought to be orbiting the nearby […]
The α Centauri system, which is currently the closest known star system to the Sun (and also known by the ancient name, Rigil Kentaurus), contains three […]
The first confirmed discovery of an extrasolar planet took place in 1992 with the detection of planets orbiting the pulsar known as PSR 1257+12 followed in […]
Today marks the second anniversary of the announcement of the discovery of the planet α Centauri Bb. But despite the importance of finding a planet orbiting […]
