The first exoplanet, 51 Pegasi b, had just been announced, and almost no-one believed it. The method used to detect it was indirect, the signal was small, and the data were hard to parse.

The very first exoplanet found—51 Pegasi b, discovered in 1995—was itself a surprise: A giant planet crammed up against its star, winging around it in just four days. “51 Peg should have let ...

By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, scientists have started developing a library of basalt-based spectral signatures that not only will help reveal the composition of ...

Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz were awarded the prize for finding 51 Pegasi b, a gas giant orbiting a star 50 light-years away. ESO / M Kornmesser Artwork: Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz have won ...

Other Caltech authors include Yapeng Zhang, a 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Astronomy; Aniket Sanghi, a graduate student; Konstantin Batygin, professor of planetary ...

ABSTRACT We have used high‐resolution optical spectra to search for obvious absorption or emission lines from the planets orbiting HD 209458 and 51 Pegasi. For each star ... Hubbard, W. B., Lunine, J.

On this day, October 30th, we take a moment to reflect on the significant historical events that have shaped our world across ...

Follow Paul on Twitter. Artwork: Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz won in 2019 for their detection of the distant planet 51 Pegasi b 2019 - James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz shared the ...

In 1995, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz detected the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star at the Haute-Provence Observatory: 51 Pegasi b. The Nobel Prize awarded to the two Swiss astronomers in ...

When stars explode as supernovas, they can cause serious cosmic carnage. Is Earth in any danger from any nearby stars?

Jessica Hoppe on being the "First in the Family" September 13, 2024 • On this week's 51%, we speak with writer and mental health advocate Jessica Hoppe about her new book First in the Family ...