Beyond Earthly Skies

Barragán et al. (2016) present the detection of EPIC 211391664b, a transiting Neptune-sized planet in a 10.14 day orbit around an F-type...

Oberst et al. (2016) present the discovery of KELT-16b, a highly irradiated, ultra-short period hot-Jupiter transiting a relatively brig...

Figure 1: Artist's impression of an exoplanet. Kepler is a planet-hunting telescope that searches for planets that transit their ho...

WASP-127b is a heavily inflated super-Neptune with 0.18 times the mass and 1.35 times the radius of Jupiter. This means the density of W...

G2 is a dusty object in a highly eccentric orbit around the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way galaxy. At closest ap...

Brown dwarfs are objects that formed in the same way as stars and they have masses between 0.01 to 0.08 times the mass of the Sun. Howev...

Kepler has discovered many planetary systems consisting of multiple small planets with orbital periods less than ~50 days. These compact...

2015 RR245 is a dwarf planet candidate detected by the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS). It is in an eccentric orbit around the...

Mróz et al. (2016) present the discovery of a high mass ratio system from a gravitational microlensing event. The planet to host star ma...

HD 3167 is a Sun-like star with ~0.88 times the mass and ~0.83 times the radius of the Sun. It is located ~150 light years away and its effe...