A new instrument being built by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics for use in the Canary Islands will help NASA's planet-scouting Kepler spacecraft confirm and characterize potential ...

Yale researchers have designed a new tool to advance efforts to find Earth-sized planets in neighboring solar systems. Led by astronomy professor Debra Fischer, the team has built the Extreme ...

A team of astronomers, led by three Yale scientists, has developed a new technique to determine the presence of exoplanets by observing the surface of stars. Debra Fischer, professor of astronomy at ...

Getting out of the galaxy might take an antimatter engine. Future explorers departing the Milky Way will have to boost their spaceship to 0.2 per cent of the speed of light, according to a study of ...