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Super-Earth spotted by ground-based telescope, a first
Dec 17, 2014 (UPI)
For the first time, a ground-based telescope has observed a super-Earth alien planet passing in front of its host star. The exoplanet, roughly twice the size of...
Astronomers spot Pluto-size objects swarming about young sun
Dec 11, 2014 (UPI)
Researchers at Harvard have come across images that suggest a series of Pluto-sized object swarming about the outer reaches of a solar system anchored by a youn...
Queen's scientist leads study of 'Super-Earth'
Dec 08, 2014 (SPX)
Research led by an astronomer at Queen's University Belfast could pave the way in the search for life on other planets. Up to now, only space-based telescopes h...
Finding infant earths and potential life just got easier
Dec 05, 2014 (SPX)
Among the billions and billions of stars in the sky, where should astronomers look for infant Earths where life might develop? New research from Cornell Univers...
'Mirage Earth' exoplanets may have burned away chances for life
Dec 04, 2014 (SPX)
Planets orbiting close to low-mass stars - easily the most common stars in the universe - are prime targets in the search for extraterrestrial life. But new res...
Ground-based detection of exoplanets
Dec 03, 2014 (SPX)
For the first time, a team of astronomers - including York University Professor Ray Jayawardhana - have measured the passing of a super-Earth in front of a brig...
Stardust Not Likely to Block Planet Portraits
Dec 03, 2014 (JPL)
Planet hunters received some good news recently. A new study concluded that, on average, sun-like stars aren't all that dusty. Less dust means better odds of sn...
Observing Solar System Worlds as if They Were Distant Exoplanets
Dec 02, 2014 (SPX)
"It takes one to know one," as the old truism goes. When it comes to unraveling the mysteries of far-off exoplanets, the same holds true - one more reason why a...
Ground-Based Detection Paves Way to Remote Sensing of Small Exoplanets
Dec 02, 2014 (SPX)
Astronomers have measured the passing of a super-Earth in front of a bright, nearby Sun-like star using a ground-based telescope for the first time. The transit...
Astrobiology Acupuncture: Collecting Data from Non-Planar Surfaces
Dec 01, 2014 (SPX)
A team of researchers supported in part by the NASA Astrobiology Program has turned to acupuncture in order to study samples from rough and uneven surfaces, suc...
Hot, Super-Earths Help Track Water-Rich Atmospheres
Nov 26, 2014 (SPX)
As the discovery of planets beyond the Solar System becomes more common, scientists have begun the in-depth study of the atmospheres of these bodies. In a new p...
How to estimate the magnetic field of an exoplanet?
Nov 24, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists developed a new method which allows to estimate the magnetic field of a distant exoplanet, i.e., a planet, which is located outside the Solar system ...
NASA's TESS mission cleared for next development phase
Nov 12, 2014 (SPX)
NASA has officially confirmed the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission, clearing it to move forward into the development phase. This marks a sig...
Follow the Dust to Find Planets
Nov 12, 2014 (JPL)
Researchers studying what appears to be a beefed-up version of our solar system have discovered that it is encased in a halo of fine dust. The findings are base...
ADS primes ESA's CHEOPS to detect and classify exoplanets
Nov 12, 2014 (SPX)
Airbus Defence and Space, the world's second largest space company, has become the prime contractor for the CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite) satellit...
NASA's TESS Mission Cleared for Next Development Phase
Nov 11, 2014 (SPX)
NASA has officially confirmed the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission, clearing it to move forward into the development phase. This marks a sig...
European satellite could discover thousands of planets in Earth's galaxy
Nov 10, 2014 (SPX)
A recently launched European satellite could reveal tens of thousands of new planets within the next few years, and provide scientists with a far better underst...
NASA's Hubble Surveys Debris-Strewn Exoplanetary Construction Yards
Nov 07, 2014 (SPX)
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have completed the largest and most sensitive visible-light imaging survey of dusty debris disks around other st...
Peering into Planetary Atmospheres
Nov 06, 2014 (SPX)
Pluto is the foremost member of a large population of mysterious icy bodies - called Kuiper Belt Objects - that reside far beyond the orbit of Neptune. In the 1...
VLTI detects exozodiacal light
Nov 04, 2014 (SPX)
Using the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) in near-infrared light [1], the team of astronomers observed 92 nearby stars to probe exozodiacal light fro...
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