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Largest crowdsource astronomy network helps confirm discovery of 'Tatooine' planet
Jun 19, 2016 (SPX)
Crowdsourcing is used for everything from raising funds to locating the best burger in town. The practice of enlisting a large group of people to provide a serv...
Largest, Widest Orbit Tatooine Bolsters Planet Formation Theories
Jun 19, 2016 (SPX)
A team of astronomers, including University of Hawaii astronomer Nader Haghighipour, will announce on June 13 the discovery of an unusual new transiting circumb...
Planet-Devouring Star Reveals Possible Limestone Crumbs
Jun 16, 2016 (SPX)
A group of researchers using the W. M. Keck Observatory have discovered a planet-like body that may have been encrusted in limestone and is having its surface l...
Clouds, haze cause astronomers to overestimate size of exoplanets
Jun 15, 2016 (UPI)
New research suggests the size of exoplanets may be routinely overestimated, and clouds, scientists say, are to blame. Astronomers and their observatories have ...
New planet is largest discovered that orbits 2 suns
Jun 15, 2016 (SPX)
If you cast your eyes toward the constellation Cygnus, you'll be looking in the direction of the largest planet yet discovered around a double-star system. It's...
Smaller Stars Pack Big X-ray Punch for Would-Be Planets
Jun 15, 2016 (SPX)
Young stars much less massive than the Sun can unleash a torrent of X-ray radiation that can significantly shorten the lifetime of planet-forming disks surround...
Likely new planet may be in slow death spiral
Jun 10, 2016 (SPX)
Astronomers searching for the galaxy's youngest planets have found compelling evidence for one unlike any other, a newborn "hot Jupiter" whose outer layers are ...
Cloudy Days on Exoplanets May Hide Atmospheric Water
Jun 10, 2016 (SPX)
Water is a hot topic in the study of exoplanets, including "hot Jupiters," whose masses are similar to that of Jupiter, but which are much closer to their paren...
On exoplanets, atmospheric water may be hiding behind clouds
Jun 08, 2016 (UPI)
Scientists have detected water in the atmospheres of some hot Jupiters -- exoplanets the size of Jupiter, but orbiting much closer to their parent stars. Others...
Planet 1,200 Light-Years Away Is Good Prospect for a Habitable World
May 27, 2016 (SPX)
A distant planet known as Kepler-62f could be habitable, a team of astronomers reports. The planet, which is about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the direction...
Astronomers find giant planet around very young star
May 27, 2016 (SPX)
In contradiction to the long-standing idea that larger planets take longer to form, astronomers have reported the discovery of a giant planet in close orbit aro...
ALMA Reveals Footprints of Baby Planets in a Gas Disk
May 26, 2016 (SPX)
New analysis of ALMA data for HL Tauri provides yet more firm evidence of baby planets around the star. Researchers uncovered two gaps in the gas disk around th...
Kepler-223 System Offers Clues to Planetary Migration
May 20, 2016 (JPL)
The four planets of the Kepler-223 star system appeared to have little in common with the planets of our own solar system today. But a new study using data from...
Exoplanets' Orbits Point to Planetary Migration
May 16, 2016 (SPX)
The four planets of the Kepler-223 star system seem to have little in common with the planets of Earth's own solar system. And yet a new study shows that the Ke...
Star Has Four Mini-Neptunes Orbiting in Lock Step
May 13, 2016 (SPX)
A four-planet system observed several years ago by the Kepler spacecraft is actually a rarity: Its planets, all miniature Neptunes nestled close to the star, ar...
Synchronized planets reveal clues to planet formation
May 12, 2016 (SPX)
The search for planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy has revealed an extraordinary family of planets whose orbits are so carefully timed that they provide ...
Kepler space telescope finds another 1284 exo planets
May 11, 2016 (JPL)
NASA's Kepler mission has verified 1,284 new planets - the single largest finding of planets to date. "This announcement more than doubles the number of confirm...
NASA says 1,284 new planets found by Kepler telescope
May 10, 2016 (AFP)
NASA on Tuesday announced the discovery of 1,284 new planets outside our solar system, more than doubling the number of known exoplanets found with the Kepler s...
Three potentially habitable worlds found around nearby ultracool dwarf star
May 09, 2016 (SPX)
A team of astronomers led by Michael Gillon, of the Institut d'Astrophysique et Geophysique at the University of Liege in Belgium, have used the Belgian TRAPPIS...
Scientists discover potentially habitable planets
May 08, 2016 (SPX)
Is there life beyond our solar system? If there is, our best bet for finding it may lie in three nearby, Earth-like exoplanets. For the first time, an internati...
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