2004

• 2/2/2004 STScI-2004-44 11. Oxygen and Carbon Found in Atmosphere of an Extrasolar Planet NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected, for the first time ever, the presence of oxygen and carbon in the atmosphere of a planet outside... (More)

2003

• 7/10/2003 STScI-2003-19 12. Oldest Known Planet Identified NASA's Hubble Space Telescope precisely measured the mass of the oldest known planet in our Milky Way galaxy. At an estimated age of 13 billion years, the... (More)
• 3/12/2003 STScI-2003-08 13. Too Close for Comfort: Hubble Discovers an Evaporating Planet Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have observed for the first time the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system evaporating into space. (More)

2002

• 12/3/2002 STScI-2002-27 14. Hubble Makes Precise Measure of Extrasolar World's True Mass An international team of astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to help make a precise measurement of the mass of a planet outside our solar system. (More)

2001

• 11/27/2001 STScI-2001-38 15. Hubble Makes First Direct Measurements of Atmosphere on World Around another Star Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have made the first direct detection of the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a star outside... (More)

1998

• 5/28/1998 STScI-1998-19 16. Hubble Takes First Image of a Possible Planet around Another Star and Finds a Runaway World The Hubble telescope has given astronomers their first direct look at what is possibly a planet outside... (More)