The odd image from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Maunakea, Hawaii comes from “first light” of its new intrument, the Keck Planet Finder, which is expected to revolutionize the hunt for life ...

Astronomers will soon have a new tool for hunting exoplanets, as the W. M. Keck Observatory’s Keck Planet Finder (KPF) instrument recently took its first observations. KPF’s “first light ...

Astronomers have spotted a planet 90 light years away from Earth with a surprising atmosphere — and the possibility of clouds containing water. TOI-1231 b is an exoplanet, meaning it is located ...

New detailed observations from the Habitable Zone Planet Finder on the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, as well as NSF’s NOIRLab facilities, reveal a young exoplanet, orbiting a young star in the Hyades ...

The Automated Planet Finder telescope is less than a quarter the size–and gathers less than one-sixteenth the light–of the 10-meter Keck Telescopes, the largest optical telescopes currently in use.

Scientists have discovered an impossibly large planet — so big, they say, that it should be too big to exist. And yet. In a new study published in the journal Science, researchers out of ...

The Habitable Zone Planet Finder instrument during installation in its clean-room enclosure in the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory. Credit: Guðmundur Stefánssonn/Penn State Astronomers ...