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Gaia Mission Could Help Map Exoplanets
Dec 19, 2013 (ESA)
The Kepler mission from NASA has discovered more than 3,600 possible worlds, a haul greater than any mission before it. Now researchers suggest the Gaia spacecr...
Nearby failed stars may harbor planet
Dec 17, 2013 (SPX)
Astronomers, including Carnegie's Yuri Beletsky, took precise measurements of the closest pair of failed stars to the Sun, which suggest that the system harbors...
Innovative instrument probes close binary stars, may soon image exoplanets
Dec 17, 2013 (SPX)
A new instrument that combines two high-resolution telescope techniques - adaptive optics and interferometry - has for the first time distinguished and studied ...
Astronomers solve temperature mystery of planetary atmospheres
Dec 16, 2013 (SPX)
An atmospheric peculiarity the Earth shares with Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune is likely common to billions of planets, University of Washington astronome...
Astronomers discover planet that shouldn't be there
Dec 10, 2013 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers, led by a University of Arizona graduate student, has discovered the most distantly orbiting planet found to date around a ...
Feature of Earth's atmosphere may help in search for habitable planets
Dec 10, 2013 (UPI)
An atmospheric peculiarity on Earth is likely common to billions of planets, a finding that may help identify potentially habitable worlds, U.S. scientists say....
Hot Jupiters Highlight Challenges in the Search for Life Beyond Earth
Dec 09, 2013 (SPX)
This week, the Goddard Center for Astrobiology celebrated the confirmation of atmospheric water on five exoplanets. This discovery heralds a new era in planet h...
Hubble Traces Subtle Signals of Water on Hazy Worlds
Dec 05, 2013 (SPX)
Using the powerful eye of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, two teams of scientists have found faint signatures of water in the atmospheres of five distant planets...
Astronomers find strange planet orbiting where there shouldn't be one
Dec 05, 2013 (UPI)
A team of astronomers led by a U.S. graduate student has discovered a planet that shouldn't be where it is, raising questions about how planetary systems form. ...
The State of Super Earths
Dec 03, 2013 (SPX)
Our solar system hosts a cornucopia of worlds, from the hellfire of Venus to the frozen plains of Mars to the mighty winds of Uranus. In that range, the Earth s...
Astronomers detect water in atmosphere of distant exoplanets
Dec 03, 2013 (UPI)
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope say they've found faint signatures of water in the atmospheres of five distant planets. Although the probable ex...
Search for habitable planets should be more conservative
Nov 27, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists should take the conservative approach when searching for habitable zones where life-sustaining planets might exist, according to James Kasting, Evan ...
Astronomers answer key question: How common are habitable planets?
Nov 06, 2013 (SPX)
Kepler spacecraft, now crippled and its four-year mission at an end, nevertheless provided enough data to complete its mission objective: to determine how many ...
NASA Kepler Results Usher in a New Era of Astronomy
Nov 06, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists from around the world are gathered this week at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., for the second Kepler Science Conference, where...
One in five Sun-like stars may have Earth-like planets
Nov 05, 2013 (AFP)
As many as one in five Sun-like stars may have a planet the size of Earth, and the nearest could be in systems visible to the naked eye, US astronomers said Mon...
Mystery World Baffles Astronomers
Nov 01, 2013 (SPX)
Kepler-78b is a planet that shouldn't exist. This scorching lava world circles its star every eight and a half hours at a distance of less than one million mile...
Researchers discover that an exoplanet is Earth-like in mass and size
Nov 01, 2013 (SPX)
In August, MIT researchers identified an exoplanet with an extremely brief orbital period: The team found that Kepler 78b, a small, intensely hot planet 400 lig...
'Hellish' exoplanet has Earth-like mass: research
Oct 30, 2013 (AFP)
An Earth-sized planet far beyond our Solar System has been found to have a similar mass to our planet, said researchers Wednesday engaged in the hunt for other ...
Carbon Worlds May be Waterless
Oct 29, 2013 (JPL)
Planets rich in carbon, including so-called diamond planets, may lack oceans, according to NASA-funded theoretical research. Our sun is a carbon-poor star, and ...
New planet found around distant star could be record-breaker
Oct 25, 2013 (UPI)
The discovery of a seventh planet around a distant star makes it one the richest planetary systems yet discovered, European astronomers say. The discovery at th...
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