2013

• 1/8/2013 STScI-2013-01 1. Hubble Reveals Rogue Planetary Orbit for Fomalhaut b Newly released Hubble Space Telescope images of a vast debris disk encircling the nearby star Fomalhaut, and of a mysterious planet circling it, may provide forensic... (More)

2012

• 10/29/2012 STScI-2012-46 2. Additional Kepler Data Now Available to All Planet Hunters The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., is releasing 12 additional months worth of planet-searching data meticulously collected... (More)
• 6/28/2012 STScI-2012-23 3. Hubble, Swift Detect First-Ever Changes in an Exoplanet Atmosphere An international team of astronomers using data from the NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made an unparalleled observation, detecting significant changes... (More)
• 2/21/2012 STScI-2012-13 4. 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)
• 1/11/2012 STScI-2012-07 5. The Milky Way Contains at Least 100 Billion Planets According to Survey Our Milky Way galaxy contains a minimum of 100 billion planets according to a detailed statistical study based on the detection of three extrasolar... (More)

2011

• 10/6/2011 STScI-2011-29 6. 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)
• 7/5/2011 STScI-2011-22 7. 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

• 7/15/2010 STScI-2010-21 8. 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)
• 5/24/2010 STScI-2010-17 9. Out of Whack Planetary System Offers Clues to a Disturbed Past For just over a decade, astronomers have known that three Jupiter-type planets orbit the yellow-white star Upsilon Andromedae. But to their surprise... (More)
• 5/20/2010 STScI-2010-15 10. 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)