The imaging was a "race against time" with the extrasolar planet, or "exoplanet," about to disappear behind the blinding ...

A few decades ago, astronomers were just entering a new frontier of exoplanet discovery. Exoplanets are planets located outside our solar system. They orbit distant stars and represent mysterious ...

The new extrasolar planet or "exoplanet" was discovered around the sun-like star Kepler-51, located around 2,615 light-years away in the constellation of Cygnus (the Swan). Remarkably, the new ...