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Astronomers discover 'young Jupiter' exoplanet
Aug 14, 2015 (SPX)
A Jupiter-like planet within a young system that could serve as a decoder ring for understanding how planets formed around our Sun has been discovered by a team...
Gemini-discovered world is most like Jupiter
Aug 14, 2015 (SPX)
Going beyond the discovery and imaging of a young Jupiter, astronomers using the Gemini Observatory's new Planet Imager (GPI) have probed a newly discovered wor...
Tenth transiting 'Tatooine'
Aug 12, 2015 (SPX)
Astronomers at the 29th International Astronomical Union General Assembly will announce the discovery of a new transiting "circumbinary" planet, bringing the nu...
Astronomers discover new planet orbiting two stars
Aug 12, 2015 (SPX)
A team of astronomers including a San Francisco State University researcher has discovered a new planet orbiting a pair of stars, the 10th "circumbinary" planet...
Scientists solve planetary ring riddle
Aug 07, 2015 (SPX)
In a breakthrough study, an international team of scientists, including Professor Nikolai Brilliantov from the University of Leicester, has solved an age-old sc...
Exoplanets 20/20: Looking Back to the Future
Aug 05, 2015 (JPL)
Geoff Marcy remembers the hair standing up on the back of his neck. Paul Butler remembers being dead tired. The two men had just made history: the first confirm...
An exceptional planetary system discovered in Cassiopeia
Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)
Astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and members of the NCCR PlanetS have teased out a secret planetary system hiding in the arms of Cassiopea, jus...
Overselling NASA
Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)
Let me give you another Earth. Yup, a whole new planet. Of course, there are conditions. We don't really know what the atmosphere is like. We're not totally sur...
Study: All planetary rings governed by particle distribution principle
Aug 05, 2015 (UPI)
The rings of Saturn and Jupiter and those of satellites, planets and exoplanets all have something in common -- the distribution of their ring particles is gove...
NASA's Spitzer Confirms Closest Rocky Exoplanet
Aug 01, 2015 (JPL)
Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have confirmed the discovery of the nearest rocky planet outside our solar system, larger than Earth and a pot...
Microlensing used to find distant Uranus-sized planet
Aug 01, 2015 (SPX)
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have made independent confirmations of an exoplanet orbiting far from its central star. Th...
Discovery Of A Mars-Size World Uses Tug-Of-War Technique
Jul 27, 2015 (SPX)
With a remarkable scheme that uses the motions of one planet to find another, astronomers have discovered a Mars-sized world 200 light-years from Earth. The dis...
Pulsar Punches Hole In Stellar Disk
Jul 27, 2015 (SPX)
A fast-moving pulsar appears to have punched a hole in a disk of gas around its companion star and launched a fragment of the disk outward at a speed of about 4...
Finding Another Earth
Jul 27, 2015 (JPL)
The discovery of a super-Earth-sized planet orbiting a sun-like star brings us closer than ever to finding a twin of our own watery world. But NASA's Kepler spa...
Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth
Jul 24, 2015 (JPL)
NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the "habitable zone" around a sun-like star. This discovery and the introduction of 11 o...
NASA discovers closest Earth-twin yet
Jul 23, 2015 (AFP)
Astronomers hunting for another Earth have found the closest match yet, a potentially rocky planet circling its star at the same distance as our home orbits the...
New Method Finds Best Candidates for Telescope Time
Jul 22, 2015 (SPX)
If life exists on planets beyond our Solar System, its presence could be obscured by the haze and clouds in the planet's atmosphere. Even next generation telesc...
The Planetary Sweet Spot
Jul 21, 2015 (SPX)
Planet Earth is situated in what astronomers call the Goldilocks Zone - a sweet spot in a solar system where a planet's surface temperature is neither too hot n...
ARIEL mission to reveal 'Brave New Worlds' among exoplanets
Jul 17, 2015 (SPX)
An ambitious European mission is being planned to answer fundamental questions about how planetary systems form and evolve. ARIEL will investigate the atmospher...
Astronomers bring a new hope to find 'Tatooine' planets
Jul 16, 2015 (SPX)
Sibling suns - made famous in the "Star Wars" scene where Luke Skywalker gazes toward a double sunset - and the planets around them may be more common than we'v...
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