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Airbus DS ready to start testing exoplanet tracker CHEOPS
Oct 14, 2015 (SPX)
Airbus Defence and Space has finished building the structural model for ESA's CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite), Europe's first mission to search for ...
Hubble Telescope Spots Mysterious Space Objects
Oct 11, 2015 (Sputnik)
Scientists from the Paris Observatory have discovered mysterious undulating objects on space photos made with the Hubble space telescope and ESO's Very Large Te...
Mysterious ripples found racing through planet-forming disc
Oct 08, 2015 (ESA)
Using images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered never-before-seen structures within a dusty di...
Exoplanet Anniversary: From Zero to Thousands in 20 Years
Oct 08, 2015 (JPL)
October 6 marks the 20th anniversary of the first discovery of a planet orbiting a sun-like, or "normal," star beyond our solar system. The planet, called 51 Pe...
The Most Stable Source of Light in the World
Oct 02, 2015 (SPX)
In order to be able to detect planets comparable to Earth, the CHEOPS satellite, which will be sent into orbit at the end of 2017, must be able to measure the l...
Earth-class planets likely have protective magnetic fields, aiding life
Sep 29, 2015 (SPX)
Earth-like planets orbiting close to small stars probably have magnetic fields that protect them from stellar radiation and help maintain surface conditions tha...
Stellar atmosphere can be used to predict the composition of rocky exoplanets
Sep 18, 2015 (SPX)
In two recently published articles researchers from Instituto de Astrofisica e Ciencias do Espaco (IA3) show that the ratio of some heavy elements in a star, li...
Watching an exoplanet in motion around a distant star
Sep 17, 2015 (SPX)
A team of astronomers has given us our best view yet of an exoplanet moving in its orbit around a distant star. A series of images captured between November 201...
Nearby Red Dwarfs Could Reveal Planet Secrets
Sep 16, 2015 (SPX)
An accidental find of a collection of young red dwarf stars close to our solar system could give us a rare glimpse of slow-motion planet formation. Astronomers ...
Study: 'Hot Jupiter' exoplanets formed extremely rapidly
Sep 16, 2015 (UPI)
For years, astronomers have been stumped by a rare type of exoplanet known as "hot Jupiters." Hot Jupiters are gas giants which orbit unusually close to their s...
Europlanet 2020 launches new era of planetary collaboration in Europe
Sep 16, 2015 (SPX)
A 9.95 million euro project to integrate and support planetary science activities across Europe has been launched. The Europlanet 2020 Research Infrastructure (...
Rocky planets may be habitable depending on their 'air conditioning system'
Sep 15, 2015 (SPX)
The quest for potentially habitable planets is often interpreted as the search for an Earth twin. And yet, some rocky planets outside our Solar System may in fa...
Astronomers peer into the 'amniotic sac' of a planet-hosting star
Sep 15, 2015 (SPX)
Astronomers have successfully peered through the 'amniotic sac' of a star that is still forming to observe the innermost region of a burgeoning solar system for...
Earth observations show how nitrogen may be detected on exoplanets, aiding search for life
Sep 04, 2015 (SPX)
Observations of nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere by a NASA spacecraft 17 million miles away are giving astronomers fresh clues to how that gas might reveal itself...
Distant planet's interior chemistry may differ from our own
Sep 03, 2015 (SPX)
As astronomers continue finding new rocky planets around distant stars, high-pressure physicists are considering what the interiors of those planets might be li...
Earth's mineralogy unique in the cosmos
Aug 31, 2015 (SPX)
New research from a team led by Carnegie's Robert Hazen predicts that Earth has more than 1,500 undiscovered minerals and that the exact mineral diversity of ou...
A new model of gas giant planet formation
Aug 20, 2015 (SPX)
Queen's University researcher Martin Duncan has co-authored a study that solves the mystery of how gas giants such as Jupiter and Saturn formed in the early sol...
Planetary pebbles were building blocks for the largest planets
Aug 20, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and Queen's University in Canada have unraveled the mystery of how Jupiter and Saturn likely formed. This dis...
Solar System formation don't mean a thing without that spin
Aug 19, 2015 (SPX)
New work from Carnegie's Alan Boss and Sandra Keiser provides surprising new details about the trigger that may have started the earliest phases of planet forma...
Methane, water enshroud nearby Jupiter-like exoplanet
Aug 14, 2015 (SPX)
The Gemini Planet Imager has discovered and photographed its first planet, a methane-enshrouded gas giant much like Jupiter that may hold the key to understandi...
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