10/6/2011STScI-2011-292.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-2011-223.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-2010-214.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-2010-156.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-2009-227.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-2009-158.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-2008-419.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)
11/13/2008STScI-2008-3910.Hubble Directly Observes Planet Orbiting Fomalhaut
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet orbiting another star. The images show the planet, named Fomalhaut... (More)
