See how NASA's Advanced Camera for Surveys was able to travel to Fomalhaut B, an extra solar planet that may be like our Earth. A top astronomer explains how his team was able to determine the size, shape, and composition of the planet....

This clip is an introduction to a NASA video often used in planetarium shows. This intro is subtitled in Spanish which is great for ELLs and introduces the idea that there may be life on other planets. Unfortunately, this clip is an...

The Hubble telescope captures an event never before seen be the human eye. An extra-solar planet orbited too close to its parent star and evaporated away. This gives scientists an understanding of what would happen if a gas giant were...

A video series where astrophysicist Matt O'Dowd investigates the outer reaches of space. Explores topics from asteroids to gravitation waves to sci-fi!

In 2014, NASA announced a breakthrough addition to the catalog of new planets. Researchers using Kepler have confirmed 715 new worlds, almost quadrupling the number of planets previously confirmed by the planet-hunting spacecraft. Some...

Astronomers are able to map distant extrasolar planets that orbit stars other than the Sun. They mainly use two methods - the Doppler and the Transit methods. [4:35]

Today Phil explains that YES, there are other planets out there and astronomers have a lot of methods for detecting them. Exoplanets appear to orbit nearly every kind of star, and we've even found planets that are the same size as Earth....

Reporter Ron Cowen discusses his top picks from a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

The Kepler mission is changing the way we think about exoplanets. [2:19]