#exoplanet

Blog / The Strange Case of the “First Exoplanet”

September 29, 2021 / Mackenna Wood /

The first exoplanet was discovered by Michael Mayor and Didier Queloz in 1998. So why then did I come across an essay written in 1946 claiming that one was found in 1942?

Blog / Ironing out the Detection of Metallic Rain

March 30, 2020March 30, 2020 / Melody Kessler /

The discovery of an exoplanet that rains molten iron captivates the world and captures the promise of combining a telescope with a spectrograph.