Talking with Pioneering Planet Hunter, 20 Years After Groundbreaking Find

Wednesday, December 30, 2015 - 13:03 in Astronomy & Space

Twenty years ago, Michel Mayor helped discover the first planet orbiting a sunlike star outside Earth's solar system. Space.com talked to Mayor about where the field of exoplanet hunting has been, and where it's going.

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