Beyond Earthly Skies

Figure 1: Artist's impression of a brown dwarf. Brown dwarfs are objects that are not massive enough to sustain hydrogen burning in...

Figure 1: Artist's impression of an exoplanet. Crossfield et al. (2016) present 197 planet candidates discovered using data from th...

The minimum mass a star can have is roughly 0.08 times the mass of the Sun. A lower-mass object would be classified as a brown dwarf. Ve...

The detection of reflected light from a planet can allow for the study of the planet's atmosphere. However, the challenge is that t...

Affer et al. (2016) present the discovery of a planetary system consisting of two super-Earths in orbit around a red dwarf star with app...

Zhou et al. (2016) present the discovery of a hot-Jupiter transiting a massive, rapidly-rotating A-type star. The planet is identified a...

Koshimoto et al. (2016) present the detection of a planet identified as OGLE-2012-BLG-0950Lb. This planet and its host star crossed the ...

The low mass and intrinsic faintness of red dwarf stars make these objects difficult to study. As a consequence, the mass-radius relatio...

Figure 1: Artist’s impression of a gas giant planet. HD 131399Ab is a young, Jupiter-like planet in a triple star system located ~320 l...

Figure 1: Artist’s impression of a hot-Jupiter. Barros et al. (2016) present the discovery of two inflated hot-Jupiters with contrastin...