Sources: BBC News
The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope captures an image of PDS 70b, making it the first clear image of a planet forming from the disk of gas and debris surrounding its host star. 2018-07-3
NASA and the European Southern Observatory announce the discovery of four new Earth-like planets in the Goldilocks zone of the star TRAPPIST-1, in addition to the three discovered there last year. 2017-02-22
NASA's Kepler telescope suffers a critical hardware failure, possibly putting an end to its planet hunting mission. 2013-05-15
NASA's Kepler Mission announces the discovery of a planetary system of six planets circulating the star Kepler-11. 2011-02-2