2/21/2012STScI-2012-131.NASA's Hubble Reveals a New Class of Extrasolar Planet
Observations of the extrasolar planet GJ1214b by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have come up with a new class of planet, a waterworld enshrouded... (More)
10/6/2011STScI-2011-293.Astronomers Find Elusive Planets in Decade-Old Hubble Data
In a painstaking re-analysis of Hubble Space Telescope images from 1998, astronomers have found visual evidence for two extrasolar planets that went undetected... (More)
7/5/2011STScI-2011-224.NASA's Hubble Makes One Millionth Science Observation
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope crossed another milestone in its 21-year space odyssey of exploration and discovery. On Monday, July 4, the Earth-orbiting observatory... (More)
2010
7/15/2010STScI-2010-215.Superhot Planet Likely Possesses Comet-like Tail
As if the debate over what is and what is not a planet hasn't gotten confusing enough, Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have now confirmed the existence of a tortured... (More)
5/20/2010STScI-2010-157.Hubble Finds Star Eating a Planet
"The Star That Ate My Planet" may sound like a B-grade science fiction movie title, but this is really happening 600 light-years away. Like a moth in a candle flame, a doomed Jupiter-sized... (More)
2009
6/25/2009STScI-2009-228.STScI Joins the Search for Other Earths in Space
The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., is partnering on a historic search for Earth-size planets around other stars. (More)
4/1/2009STScI-2009-159.Hubble Finds Hidden Exoplanet in Archival Data
In 19 years of observations, the Hubble Space Telescope has amassed a huge archive of data. That archive may contain the telltale glow of undiscovered extrasolar planets... (More)
2008
12/9/2008STScI-2008-4110.Hubble Finds Carbon Dioxide on an Extrasolar Planet
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This is an important step along the trail of finding... (More)