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Lick's Automated Planet Finder: First robotic telescope for planet hunters
Mar 27, 2014 (SPX)
Lick Observatory's newest telescope, the Automated Planet Finder (APF), has been operating robotically night after night on Mt. Hamilton since January, searchin...
Space Sunflower May Help Snap Pictures of Planets
Mar 21, 2014 (JPL)
A spacecraft that looks like a giant sunflower might one day be used to acquire images of Earth-like rocky planets around nearby stars. The prototype deployable...
NRL Researchers Detect Water Around a Hot Jupiter
Mar 21, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are part of a research team that has detected water vapor in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar...
UK joins the planet hunt with Europe's PLATO mission
Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)
The UK is set to play a leading role in the search for habitable planets orbiting alien stars, following David Willett's announcement 11 March 2014 that the UK ...
X-ray laser FLASH spies deep into giant gas planets
Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)
Using DESY's X-ray laser FLASH, researchers took a sneak peek deep into the lower atmospheric layers of giant gas planets such as Jupiter or Saturn. The observa...
Crashing Comets Explain Surprise Gas Clump Around Young Star
Mar 11, 2014 (SPX)
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope in northern Chile have today announced the discovery of an unexpected clump ...
Every red dwarf star has at least one planet
Mar 10, 2014 (SPX)
Three new planets classified as habitable-zone super-Earths are amongst eight new planets discovered orbiting nearby red dwarf stars by an international team of...
Galactic gas caused by colliding comets suggests mystery 'shepherd' exoplanet
Mar 10, 2014 (SPX)
Astronomers exploring the disk of debris around the young star Beta Pictoris have discovered a compact cloud of carbon monoxide located about 8 billion miles (1...
A small step toward discovering habitable earths
Mar 09, 2014 (SPX)
University of Arizona researchers snapped images of a planet outside our solar system with an Earth-based telescope using essentially the same type of imaging s...
'Dimer molecules' aid study of exoplanet pressure, hunt for life
Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)
Astronomers at the University of Washington have developed a new method of gauging the atmospheric pressure of exoplanets, or worlds beyond the solar system, by...
What Would A Rocky Exoplanet Look Like? Atmosphere Models Seek Clues
Mar 05, 2014 (SPX)
When a distant planet appears as a point of light in a telescope, it's hard to imagine what things are like at the surface. Does rain fall? Is the atmosphere th...
Super-Earth' may be dead worlds
Mar 05, 2014 (SPX)
In the last 20 years the search for Earth-like planets around other stars has accelerated, with the launch of missions like the Kepler space telescope. Using th...
Kepler Mission Announces a Planet Bonanza, 715 New Worlds
Mar 03, 2014 (SPX)
NASA's Kepler mission announced Wednesday the discovery of 715 new planets. These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much ...
Water is Detected in a Planet Outside Our Solar System
Feb 27, 2014 (SPX)
Water has been detected in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system with a new technique that could help researchers to learn how many planets with w...
NASA cries planetary 'bonanza' with 715 new worlds
Feb 26, 2014 (AFP)
NASA on Wednesday announced a torrent of new planet discoveries, hailing a "bonanza" of 715 worlds now known outside the solar system thanks to the Kepler space...
Detection of Water Vapor in the Atmosphere of a Hot Jupiter
Feb 26, 2014 (SPX)
Although liquid water covers a majority of Earth's surface, scientists are still searching for planets outside of our solar system that contain water. Researche...
Rife with hype, exoplanet study needs patience and refinement
Feb 21, 2014 (SPX)
Imagine someone spent months researching new cities to call home using low-resolution images of unidentified skylines. The pictures were taken from several mile...
ESA selects planet-hunting PLATO mission
Feb 21, 2014 (ESA)
A space-based observatory to search for planets orbiting alien stars has been selected as ESA's third medium-class science mission. It is planned for launch by ...
Europe sets plans for 2024 planet-hunting mission
Feb 19, 2014 (AFP)
Europe on Wednesday unveiled plans to launch a major space observatory in 2024 aimed at finding planets orbiting other stars, one of the new frontiers of astron...
Kepler Finds a Very Wobbly Planet
Feb 07, 2014 (JPL)
Imagine living on a planet with seasons so erratic you would hardly know whether to wear Bermuda shorts or a heavy overcoat. That is the situation on a weird, w...
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