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Posted on July 18, 2018March 18, 2019

A New Frontier for Exoplanet Hunting

  The first exoplanets were all found using the radial velocity method of measuring the "wobble" of a star -- movement caused by the gravitational pull of an orbiting planet. Radial velocity has been great for detecting large exoplanets relatively close to our solar system, for assessing their mass and for finding out how long …

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