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One planet, two stars: new research shows how circumbinary planets form
Feb 01, 2014 (SPX)
Luke Skywalker's home planet Tatooine would have formed far from its current location in the Star Wars universe, a new University of Bristol study into its real...
First Weather Map of Brown Dwarf
Jan 31, 2014 (SPX)
ESO's Very Large Telescope has been used to create the first ever map of the weather on the surface of the nearest brown dwarf to Earth. An international team h...
NASA-Sponsored 'Disk Detective' Lets Public Search for New Planetary Nurseries
Jan 31, 2014 (SPX)
NASA is inviting the public to help astronomers discover embryonic planetary systems hidden among data from the agency's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WI...
ALMA Discovers a Formation Site of a Giant Planetary System
Jan 23, 2014 (SPX)
A team of Japanese astronomers has obtained a firm evidence of formation of a giant planetary system around a young star by the observations with the Atacama La...
Bright star reveals new exoplanet
Jan 23, 2014 (SPX)
By studying the star around which the planet revolves, they found that the star's rotation appears to be well-aligned with the planetary movement. The object ca...
Herschel Telescope Detects Water on Dwarf Planet
Jan 23, 2014 (JPL)
Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have made the first definitive detection of water vapor on the largest and roundest object in the asteroid belt,...
'Dwarf planet' in deep space has water
Jan 22, 2014 (AFP)
Ceres, a tiny planet in the asteroid belt, spouts water vapour, a finding that strengthens theories that life on Earth was kickstarted by a bombardment of space...
First planet found around solar twin in star cluster
Jan 20, 2014 (SPX)
Astronomers have used ESO's HARPS planet hunter in Chile, along with other telescopes around the world, to discover three planets orbiting stars in the cluster ...
Powerful Planet Finder Turns Its Eye to the Sky
Jan 10, 2014 (SPX)
After nearly a decade of development, construction, and testing, the world's most advanced instrument for directly imaging and analyzing planets around other st...
SF State astronomers discover new planet in Pisces constellation
Jan 10, 2014 (SPX)
A team led by SF State astronomer Stephen Kane has discovered a new giant planet located in a star system within the Pisces constellation. The planet, perhaps t...
NASA's Kepler Provides Insights on Enigmatic Planets
Jan 10, 2014 (JPL)
More than three-quarters of the planet candidates discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft have sizes ranging from that of Earth to that of Neptune, which is near...
New kind of planet or failed star? Astrophysicists discover category-defying celestial object
Jan 10, 2014 (SPX)
An object discovered by astrophysicists at the University of Toronto nearly 500 light years away from the sun may challenge traditional understandings about how...
Habitable zones around stars ten times wider than we thought
Jan 10, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
Life on Earth-like planets can exist at least ten times farther away from their stars than previously thought, scientists found, putting in question our whole p...
NASA Kepler Provides Insight About Enigmatic But Ubiquitous Planets, Five New Rocky Planets
Jan 07, 2014 (SPX)
More than three-quarters of the planet candidates discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft have sizes ranging from that of Earth to that of Neptune, which is near...
Newfound planet is Earth-mass but gassy
Jan 07, 2014 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers has discovered the first Earth-mass planet that transits, or crosses in front of, its host star. KOI-314c is the lightest p...
Earth appears to be an oddity, astronomers say
Jan 06, 2014 (AFP)
Astronomers call them super-Earths, and they are abundant outside our solar system. But the more experts learn about them, the weirder our own planet seems in c...
Researchers use Hubble Telescope to reveal cloudy weather on alien world
Jan 01, 2014 (SPX)
Weather forecasters on exoplanet GJ 1214b would have an easy job. Today's forecast: cloudy. Tomorrow: overcast. Extended outlook: more clouds. A team of scienti...
NASA's Hubble Sees Cloudy Super-Worlds With Chance for More Clouds
Jan 01, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have characterized the atmospheres of two of the most common type of planets in the Milky Way galaxy and found bo...
Using an Atmosphere to Weigh a Planet
Dec 23, 2013 (SPX)
A new study finds that the mass of an exoplanet can be determined solely by looking at the starlight that passes through the planet's atmosphere. When sunlight ...
First detection of a predicted unseen exoplanet
Dec 19, 2013 (SPX)
A team of European astronomers, including EXOEarths member Alexandre Santerne (Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto - CAUP), used the SOPHIE spectrogr...
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