A generation ago, the idea of a planet orbiting a distant star was still in the realm of science fiction. But since the discovery of the first exoplanet in 1988, we've found hundreds of them, with the ...

An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering previously undetectable stellar and exoplanetary signals hidden within ...

The NEID instrument mounted on the 3.5-meter WIYN telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. The NASA-NSF Exoplanet Observational Research (NN-EXPLORE) partnership funds NEID (short for ...

The search for new planets outside the solar system, also known as exoplanets, is one of the most fascinating and interesting challenges that astrophysics research has been facing in recent years.

Ask most folks what they would need to find planets orbiting distant stars, and very few will list a bottle of iodine. Yet the element iodine plays a vital role in the search for extrasolar planets ...