They've even detected planets in solar systems far beyond our own.

Until closer approach might tell them something about the two inner, smaller, detected planets.

It also allows to detect planets further away from the host star than most of the other methods.

This project is part of a scientific effort to detect and observe nearby planets.

All the stars in the four studies are much too distant from Earth to detect planets directly, even using the largest telescopes.

Any chance that Hubble might detect planets orbiting other stars has been lost.

In addition, it can easily detect planets which are relatively far away from pulsar.

This binary system has a circumbinary planet detected by direct image.

But detecting actual planets in these disks or elsewhere proved to be much more difficult.

Scientists said the method had the potential to detect Earth-size planets someday.