(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– An international team of scientists, including several who are affiliated with UC Santa Barbara, has discovered a new planet the size of Jupiter. The finding is published in ...
Astronomers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced last week that they have discovered a new planet, about the mass of Mercury, that is “crumbling to pieces” about 140 light-years from ...
UC Santa Barbara astrophysicist Avi Shporer is part of the NASA team that has found the first known planet with two “suns,” an idea popularized by the 1977 movie “Star Wars.” The discovery is ...