3/19/2008STScI-2008-111.Hubble Finds First Organic Molecule on an Exoplanet
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough... (More)
2007
12/11/2007STScI-2007-442.Hubble Finds that Extrasolar Planet Has a Hazy Sunset
A team of astronomers, led by Frederic Pont from the Geneva University Observatory in Switzerland, has detected for the first time strong evidence... (More)
1/31/2007STScI-2007-073.Hubble Probes Layer-cake Structure of Alien World's Atmosphere
The powerful vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to study for the first time the layer-cake structure of the atmosphere of a planet orbiting... (More)
10/4/2006STScI-2006-345.Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Galaxy
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars in the central region of our Milky Way galaxy. (More)
8/8/2006STScI-2006-386.Hubble Identifies Stellar Companion to Distant Planet
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has for the first time identified the parent star of a distant planet (system name OGLE-2003-BLG-235L/MOA-2003-BLG-53L) discovered... (More)
7/10/2003STScI-2003-1911.Oldest Known Planet Identified
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope precisely measured the mass of the oldest known planet in our Milky Way galaxy. At an estimated age of 13 billion years, the... (More)