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UA researchers capture first photo of planet in making
Nov 20, 2015 (SPX)
There are 450 light-years between Earth and LkCa15, a young star with a transition disk around it, a cosmic whirling dervish, a birthplace for planets. Despite ...
5400mph winds discovered hurtling around planet outside solar system
Nov 17, 2015 (SPX)
Winds of over 2km per second have been discovered flowing around planet outside of the Earth's solar system, new research has found. The University of Warwick d...
Rocket Scientists to Launch Planet-Finding Telescope
Nov 17, 2015 (SPX)
The university's rocket scientists - Prof. Supriya Chakrabarti and Asst. Prof. Timothy Cook of the Department of Physics and Applied Physics - are launching a r...
New exoplanet in our neighborhood
Nov 16, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists have discovered a new exoplanet that, in the language of "Star Wars," would be the polar opposite of frigid Hoth, and even more inhospitable than the...
Astronomers eager to get a whiff of newfound Venus-like planet
Nov 15, 2015 (SPX)
The collection of rocky planets orbiting distant stars has just grown by one, and the latest discovery is the most intriguing one to date. The newfound world, a...
Asteroid ripped apart to form star's glowing ring system
Nov 15, 2015 (SPX)
The sight of an asteroid being ripped apart by a dead star and forming a glowing debris ring has been captured in an image for the first time. Comprised of dust...
Newfound Earth-size exoplanet may be an important milestone in search for alien life
Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers have discovered an exoplanet just slightly bigger than Earth and located much closer to our Solar System than any other terrestrial, alien world. Ca...
New Results from GPI Exoplanet Survey
Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)
The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey (GPIES) is an ambitious three-year study dedicated to imaging young Jupiters and debris disks around nearby stars usin...
UCLA professor proposes simpler way to define what makes a planet
Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)
Since the late 1980s, scientists have discovered nearly 5,000 planetary bodies orbiting stars other than the sun. But astronomers are still working on what exac...
Distant world's weather is mixed bag of hot dust and molten rain
Nov 04, 2015 (SPX)
Weather patterns in a mysterious world beyond our solar system have been revealed for the first time, a study suggests. Layers of clouds, made up of hot dust an...
Disk gaps don't always signal planets
Nov 03, 2015 (SPX)
When astronomers study protoplanetary disks of gas and dust that surround young stars, they sometimes spot a dark gap like the Cassini division in Saturn's ring...
Finding New Worlds with a Play of Light and Shadow
Nov 02, 2015 (SPX)
Astronomers have used many different methods to discover planets beyond the solar system, but the most successful by far is transit photometry, which measures c...
Did Jupiter Expel A Rival Gas Giant
Oct 30, 2015 (SPX)
It's like something out of an interplanetary chess game. Astrophysicists at the University of Toronto have found that a close encounter with Jupiter about four ...
Spirals in dust around young stars may betray presence of massive planets
Oct 30, 2015 (SPX)
A team of astronomers is proposing that huge spiral patterns seen around some newborn stars, merely a few million years old (about one percent our sun's age), m...
Scientists simulate 3-D exotic clouds on an exoplanet
Oct 30, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists have catalogued nearly 2,000 exoplanets around stars near and far. While most of these are giant and inhospitable, improved techniques and spacecraft...
The Exoplanet Era
Oct 28, 2015 (SPX)
Throughout the history of science, moments periodically arrive when new fields of knowledge and discovery just explode. Cosmology was a kind of dream world unti...
Scientists Predict that Rocky Planets Formed from Pebbles
Oct 27, 2015 (SPX)
Using a new process in planetary formation modeling, where planets grow from tiny bodies called "pebbles," Southwest Research Institute scientists can explain w...
Cosmic 'Death Star' is destroying a planet
Oct 22, 2015 (SPX)
The Death Star of the movie Star Wars may be fictional, but planetary destruction is real. Astronomers have reported they have spotted a large, rocky object dis...
NASA's K2 Finds Dead Star Vaporizing a Mini 'Planet'
Oct 22, 2015 (JPL)
Scientists using NASA's repurposed Kepler space telescope, known as the K2 mission, have uncovered strong evidence of a tiny, rocky object being torn apart as i...
Most earth-like worlds have yet to be born, according to theoretical study
Oct 21, 2015 (SPX)
Earth came early to the party in the evolving universe. According to a new theoretical study, when our solar system was born 4.6 billion years ago only eight pe...
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