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NASA's Kepler discovers more than 104 new exoplanets
Jul 19, 2016 (AFP)
An international team of researchers announced Monday the discovery of 104 new planets outside our solar system, including four that could have Earth-like, rock...
Gemini Observatory Instrumental in Latest Exoplanet Harvest
Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)
The Gemini North telescope on Hawaii's Maunakea helped verify many of the over 100 new worlds announced in the initial crop of discoveries from the NASA K2 miss...
Warm Jupiters Not as Lonely as Expected
Jul 17, 2016 (SPX)
After analyzing four years of Kepler space telescope observations, astronomers from the University of Toronto have given us our clearest understanding yet of a ...
Surface Composition Determines Planet's Temperature and Habitability
Jul 17, 2016 (SPX)
In the quest for habitable planets outside our solar system - also known as exoplanets - astronomers are currently focusing on rocky planets that don't look lik...
Behind the scenes of protostellar disk formation
Jul 14, 2016 (SPX)
For a long time the formation of protostellar disks - a prerequisite to the formation of planetary system around stars - has defied theoretical astrophysicists:...
Graduate researchers lead exoplanet discoveries
Jul 12, 2016 (SPX)
Graduate students supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) helped helm two separate exoplanet discoveries that could expand researchers' understanding...
A surprising planet with three suns
Jul 08, 2016 (SPX)
A team of astronomers have used the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope to image the first planet ever found in a wide orbit inside a triple-star sy...
Lush Venus? Searing Earth? It could have happened
Jul 07, 2016 (SPX)
If conditions had been just a little different an eon ago, there might be plentiful life on Venus and none on Earth. The idea isn't so far-fetched, according to...
A Surprising Planet With Three Suns - embargo until 7 Jul 2pm EDT
Jul 07, 2016 (SPX)
A team of astronomers have used the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope to image the first planet ever found in a wide orbit inside a triple-star sy...
Teenagers at Keele University Discover Possible New Exoplanet
Jul 06, 2016 (SPX)
Twenty four students in years 10, 11 and 12, boys and girls aged 15 to 17, from local schools and colleges came together for the week in the Lennard-Jones build...
How Planetary Age Reveals Water Content
Jul 03, 2016 (SPX)
Water is necessary for life as we know it, but too much water is bad for habitability. Therefore, to study the habitability of extrasolar planets, determining t...
What Happens When You Steam a Planet
Jul 03, 2016 (SPX)
The media often imply that the goal of the hunt for extrasolar planets is to find a rocky planet about the size of Earth orbiting a star like the Sun at a dista...
When it comes to brown dwarfs, 'how far?' is a key question
Jul 01, 2016 (SPX)
Brown dwarfs are sometimes called failed stars. They're stars' dim, low-mass siblings and they fade in brightness over time. They're fascinating to astronomers ...
Newborn Planet Discovered Around Young Star
Jun 22, 2016 (SPX)
Planet formation is a complex and tumultuous process that remains shrouded in mystery. Astronomers have discovered more than 3,000 exoplanets-planets orbiting s...
Electric Wind Can Strip Earth-Like Planets of Oceans and Atmospheres
Jun 21, 2016 (SPX)
Venus has an "electric wind" strong enough to remove the components of water from its upper atmosphere, which may have played a significant role in stripping Ea...
NASA's K2 Finds Newborn Exoplanet Around Young Star
Jun 21, 2016 (JPL)
Astronomers have discovered the youngest fully formed exoplanet ever detected. The discovery was made using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope and its extended K2 mi...
Exoplanet Mission Completes Design Milestone
Jun 21, 2016 (SPX)
Twinkle has completed a key preliminary design milestone. The results of the payload study demonstrate that Twinkle's instruments will be able to achieve the mi...
Unexpected excess of giant planets in star cluster
Jun 21, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers have found that there are far more planets of the hot Jupiter type than expected in a cluster of stars called Messier 67. T...
A Young Super-Neptune Offers Clues to the Origin of Close-In Exoplanets
Jun 21, 2016 (SPX)
A team of astronomers has confirmed the existence of a young planet, only 11 million years old, that orbits very close to its star (at 0.05 AU), with an orbital...
San Francisco State University astronomer helps discover giant planet orbiting 2 suns
Jun 19, 2016 (SPX)
San Francisco State University astronomer Stephen Kane is among a team of researchers who have discovered a new planet that orbits two suns simultaneously. The ...
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