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Earth-like planets have Earth-like interiors
Feb 09, 2016 (SPX)
Every school kid learns the basic structure of the Earth: a thin outer crust, a thick mantle, and a Mars-sized core. But is this structure universal? Will rocky...
The frigid Flying Saucer
Feb 04, 2016 (SPX)
The international team, led by Stephane Guilloteau at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, France, measured the temperature of large dust grains around ...
Astronomers discover largest solar system
Jan 27, 2016 (UPI)
An international team of astronomers has identified the largest solar system in the universe. It turns out an object previously thought to be unattached and los...
Lonely Planet Finds a Mum a Trillion Km Away
Jan 26, 2016 (SPX)
Astronomers studying a lonely planet drifting through space have found its mum; a star a trillion kilometers away. The planet, known as 2MASS J2126-8140, has an...
Follow A Live Planet Hunt
Jan 19, 2016 (SPX)
A unique outreach campaign has been launched that will allow the general public to follow scientists from around the globe as they search for an Earth-like exop...
Lab discovery gives glimpse of conditions found on other planets
Jan 07, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists have recreated an elusive form of the material that makes up much of the giant planets in our solar system, and the sun. Experiments have given a gli...
ALMA reveals planetary construction sites
Dec 19, 2015 (SPX)
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found the clearest indications yet that planets with masses several times that of...
Nearby star hosts closest alien planet in the 'habitable zone'
Dec 19, 2015 (SPX)
UNSW Australia astronomers have discovered the closest potentially habitable planet found outside our solar system so far, orbiting a star just 14 light years a...
Monster planet is 'dancing with the stars'
Dec 17, 2015 (SPX)
A team made up almost entirely of current and former Carnegie scientists has discovered a highly unusual planetary system comprised of a Sun-like star, a dwarf ...
Exoplanets Water Mystery Solved
Dec 16, 2015 (SPX)
A survey of 10 hot, Jupiter-sized exoplanets conducted with NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes has led a team to solve a long-standing mystery - why som...
Mystery of missing exoplanet water solved
Dec 15, 2015 (SPX)
Astronomers from the University of Exeter have helped shed light on the atmospheres of a group of planets which orbit stars outside our solar system, known as e...
Hubble reveals diversity of exoplanet atmosphere
Dec 15, 2015 (ESA)
Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope to study the atmospheres of ten hot, Jupiter-sized exoplanets in ...
Student helps discover new planet, calculates frequency of Jupiter-like planets
Dec 10, 2015 (SPX)
High school senior Dominick Rowan of Armonk, New York, is making discoveries about other worlds. Working with University of Texas at Austin astronomer Stefano M...
What kinds of stars form rocky planets
Dec 04, 2015 (SPX)
As astronomers continue to find more and more planets around stars beyond our own Sun, they are trying to discover patterns and features that indicate what type...
Half of Kepler's giant exoplanet candidates are false positives
Dec 03, 2015 (SPX)
An international team led by Alexandre Santerne from Instituto de Astrofisica e Ciencias do Espaco (IA) made a 5-year radial velocity campaign of Kepler's giant...
Exiled exoplanet likely kicked out of star's neighborhood
Dec 02, 2015 (SPX)
A planet discovered last year sitting at an unusually large distance from its star - 16 times farther than Pluto is from the sun - may have been kicked out of i...
Neptune-size exoplanet around a red dwarf star
Nov 27, 2015 (SPX)
A team of astronomers have used the LCOGT network to detect light scattered by tiny particles (called Rayleigh scattering), through the atmosphere of a Neptune-...
How DSCOVR Could Help in Exoplanet Hunting
Nov 25, 2015 (SPX)
Could a space weather satellite be helpful in exoplanet hunting? Well, it now turns out it could. According to a team of scientists led by Stephen Kane from the...
Retro Exo and Its Originators
Nov 25, 2015 (SPX)
Exoplanets are mysterious, they're complicated, they're important, they're awe-inspiring. And, to a team of artists at the Jet Propulsion Lab, they're also tota...
Forming planet observed for first time
Nov 22, 2015 (SPX)
An international team of scientists in Australia and the United States has captured the first-ever images of a planet in the making. The accumulation of dust an...
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