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MIT compiles list of potential gases to guide search for life on exoplanets
May 08, 2016 (SPX)
A new approach intended to maximize the chances of identifying planets orbiting nearby stars that support life focuses on creating a comprehensive list of the m...
Three Earth-sized planets
May 04, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers composed of UC San Diego astrophysicists has discovered three Earth-sized planets orbiting near the "habitable zone" of an ...
Light Echoes Give Clues to Protoplanetary Disk
May 03, 2016 (JPL)
Imagine you want to measure the size of a room, but it's completely dark. If you shout, you can tell if the space you're in is relatively big or small, dependin...
On the Road to Finding Other Earths
Apr 29, 2016 (JPL)
Scientists are getting closer to finding worlds that resemble our own "blue marble" of a planet. NASA's Kepler mission alone has confirmed more than 1,000 plane...
Kepler spacecraft recovered and returned to the K2 Mission
Apr 25, 2016 (SPX)
The Kepler spacecraft has been recovered and, as of 8:30 a.m. PDT today, it is back on the job as the K2 mission searching for exoplanets - planets beyond our s...
Lone planetary-mass object found in family of stars
Apr 20, 2016 (JPL)
In 2011, astronomers announced that our galaxy is likely teeming with free-floating planets. In fact, these lonely worlds, which sit quietly in the darkness of ...
University of Massachusetts Lowell PICTURE-B Mission Completed
Apr 18, 2016 (SPX)
Designed to significantly advance the science and technology supporting exoplanet research, the PICTURE-B mission of the Lowell Center for Space Science and Tec...
1917 astronomical plate has first-ever evidence of exoplanetary system
Apr 14, 2016 (SPX)
You can never predict what treasure might be hiding in your own basement. We didn't know it a year ago, but it turns out that a 1917 image on an astronomical gl...
New tool refines exoplanet search
Apr 12, 2016 (SPX)
Planet-hunting is an ongoing process that's resulting in the discovery of more and more planets orbiting distant stars. But as the hunters learn more about the ...
Cooked planets shrink due to radiation
Apr 12, 2016 (SPX)
Astrophysicists at the University of Birmingham have used data from the NASA Kepler space telescope to discover a class of extrasolar planets whose atmospheres ...
More accurately measuring distances between planetary nebulae and Earth
Apr 12, 2016 (SPX)
A way of estimating more accurate distances to the thousands of so-called "planetary nebulae" dispersed across our Galaxy has just been announced by a team of t...
Young, unattached Jupiter analog found in solar neighborhood
Apr 11, 2016 (SPX)
A team of astronomers from Carnegie and the University of Western Ontario has discovered one of the youngest and brightest free-floating, planet-like objects wi...
Searching for Far Out and Wandering Worlds
Apr 08, 2016 (JPL)
Astronomers have made great strides in discovering planets outside of our solar system, termed "exoplanets." In fact, over the past 20 years more than 5,000 exo...
ALMA's most detailed image of a protoplanetary disc
Apr 07, 2016 (SPX)
The star TW Hydrae is a popular target of study for astronomers because of its proximity to Earth (only about 175 light-years away) and its status as an infant ...
Planet formation in Earth-like orbit around a young star
Apr 04, 2016 (SPX)
The disks of dust and gas that surround young stars are the formation sites of planets. New images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) ...
NASA's Spitzer Maps Climate Patterns on a Super-Earth
Apr 01, 2016 (JPL)
Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have led to the first temperature map of a super-Earth planet - a rocky planet nearly two times as big as ours....
'Smoothed' light will help search for Earth's twins
Apr 01, 2016 (SPX)
Physicists of MIPT (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) and the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences developed optical technology...
Map of rocky exoplanet reveals a lava world
Mar 31, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Cambridge, has obtained the most detailed 'fingerprint' of a rocky planet outside our solar syste...
Instrument Team Selected to Build Next-Gen Planet Hunter
Mar 30, 2016 (SPX)
NASA has selected a team to build a new, cutting-edge instrument that will detect planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, by measuring the minisc...
Investigating the Mystery of Migrating 'Hot Jupiters'
Mar 29, 2016 (JPL)
The last decade has seen a bonanza of exoplanet discoveries. Nearly 2,000 exoplanets - planets outside our solar system - have been confirmed so far, and more t...
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