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Astrophysicists offer proof that famous image shows forming planets
May 08, 2015 (SPX)
A recent and famous image from deep space marks the first time we've seen a forming planetary system, according to a study by U of T astrophysicists. The team, ...
New exoplanet too big for its star
May 05, 2015 (SPX)
The Australian discovery of a strange exoplanet orbiting a small cool star 500 light years away is challenging ideas about how planets form. "We have found a sm...
Robotically discovering Earth's nearest neighbors
Apr 29, 2015 (SPX)
A team of astronomers using ground-based telescopes in Hawaii, California, and Arizona recently discovered a planetary system orbiting a nearby star that is onl...
Astronomers join forces to speed discovery of habitable worlds
Apr 27, 2015 (SPX)
UC Berkeley astronomers will lead one of 16 new projects funded by NASA to coordinate different exoplanet searches to more efficiently find habitable planets ar...
Tau Ceti Probably not the next Earth
Apr 27, 2015 (SPX)
As the search continues for Earth-size planets orbiting at just the right distance from their star, a region termed the habitable zone, the number of potentiall...
Titan's Atmosphere Useful In Study Of Hazy Exoplanets
Apr 27, 2015 (SPX)
With more than a thousand confirmed planets outside of our solar system, astronomers are attempting to identify the atmospheres of these distant bodies to deter...
First exoplanet visible light spectrum
Apr 24, 2015 (SPX)
The exoplanet 51 Pegasi b [1] lies some 50 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Pegasus. It was discovered in 1995 and will forever be remembered as t...
Can we find an ancient Earth-like planet with a dying biosphere?
Apr 23, 2015 (NASA)
Our Sun will evolve into a red giant star billions of years from now. The increased heat from the expanding Sun will scorch the Earth with dire effects to life....
White Dwarf May Have Shredded Passing Planet
Apr 22, 2015 (SPX)
The destruction of a planet may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but a team of astronomers has found evidence that this may have happened in an ancient ...
Spitzer, OGLE spot planet deep within our galaxy
Apr 21, 2015 (SPX)
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has teamed up with a telescope on the ground to find a remote gas planet about 13,000 light-years away, making it one of the most...
Spitzer Spots Planet Deep Within Our Galaxy
Apr 21, 2015 (JPL)
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has teamed up with a telescope on the ground to find a remote gas planet about 13,000 light-years away, making it one of the most...
An exoplanet with an infernal atmosphere
Apr 19, 2015 (SPX)
As part of the PlanetS National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR), astronomers from the Universities of Geneva (UNIGE) and Bern, Switzerland, have come to...
Hot and Stormy at High Altitudes on Exoplanet HD 189733b
Apr 16, 2015 (SPX)
Studying the atmosphere of an exoplanet, Swiss astronomers derived a temperature profile with unprecedented precision. Their results are based on data collected...
Small solar eruptions can have profound effects on unprotected planets
Apr 12, 2015 (SPX)
While no one yet knows what's needed to build a habitable planet, it's clear that the interplay between the sun and Earth is crucial for making our planet livab...
The Solar System and Beyond is Awash in Water
Apr 10, 2015 (JPL)
As NASA missions explore our solar system and search for new worlds, they are finding water in surprising places. Water is but one piece of our search for habit...
Earthlike 'Star Wars' Tatooines may be common
Mar 31, 2015 (SPX)
Luke Skywalker's home in "Star Wars" is the desert planet Tatooine, with twin sunsets because it orbits two stars. So far, only uninhabitable gas-giant planets ...
Our Solar System May Have Once Harbored Super-Earths
Mar 24, 2015 (SPX)
Long before Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars formed, it seems that the inner solar system may have harbored a number of super-Earths - planets larger than Earth ...
ESA's CHEOPS Satellite: The Pharaoh of Exoplanet Hunting
Mar 23, 2015 (SPX)
Just like the Pharaoh Cheops, who ruled the ancient Old Kingdom of Egypt, ESA's CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS) could be someday ruling in the field...
SOFIA Finds Missing Link Between Supernovae and Planet Formation
Mar 23, 2015 (SPX)
Using NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), an international scientific team discovered that supernovae are capable of producing a su...
Planets in the habitable zone around most stars, calculate researchers
Mar 22, 2015 (SPX)
Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets in our galaxy, the Milky Way, using the Kepler satellite and many of them have multiple planets orbiting the...
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