SEATTLE – NASA has discovered the smallest planet ever seen beyond our solar system – a rocky world just 1.4 times larger than Earth – using its planet-hunting Kepler observatory. The planet, called ...
NASA bragged Tuesday that its Kepler Space Telescope had discovered the two smallest planets ever found orbiting a distant star, but a UA astronomer and colleagues may have discovered even smaller ...
A team of astronomers has announced the discovery of some of the smallest planets yet detected beyond our solar system. The two newly discovered planets represent a new class of extrasolar planets, ...
TOI-6894 is now the smallest star known to host a transiting giant planet, with a radius 40% smaller than that of any previous such host. Prof. Jamila Chouquar, who was an astronomer at ULiege at the ...