Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

VIP is a python package/library for angular, reference star and spectral differential imaging for exoplanet/disk detection through high-contrast imaging.

Astronomers have found two planets around two separate stars that are succumbing to their stars’ intense heat. Both are ...

The planet is crumbling so fast due to bombardment from its star that it is losing a "moon's worth" of matter every million years. Soon, it is doomed to vanish entirely. The extrasolar planet ...

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Planets with suns like Wolf 359 are subject to huge blasts of radiation that raise questions about their long-term ...

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years from Earth. The "promising" super-Earth - ...

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet-stream of its kind ever ...

Abstract: We determine Li abundances and v sin i values from new spectra of 53 stars with Doppler-detected planets not included in our previous papers in this series. We also examine two sets of stars ...