News for 'La Silla'

Bharatiya Janata Party MP and outgoing Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who is facing allegations of sexually harassing female wrestlers, on Sunday said he will...

Astronomers have discovered a new intriguing exoplanet about the mass of the earth, orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri star system -- the nearest to our planet. It is also the lightest exoplanet...

Astronomers have discovered a batch of three 'super-earths' orbiting a nearby star, and two other solar systems with small planets as well, which suggests that earth-like planets may be very...

Astronomers have discovered four new giant exoplanets, with masses from 2.4 to 5.5 times that of Jupiter, orbiting stars much bigger than our Sun. The newly detected worlds are enormous and have...