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Planets rich in carbon could be poor in water, reducing life chances
Oct 25, 2013 (UPI)
Planets rich in carbon -- the main element in life -- may lack the oceans of water necessary to kick-start life's creation, NASA-funded research suggests. Plane...
Count of discovered exoplanets passes the 1,000 mark
Oct 22, 2013 (UPI)
The count of exoplanets circling distant stars has passed a benchmark figure, astronomers said, as the 1,000th was added to a European database Tuesday. For the...
Iowa research team see misaligned planets in distant system
Oct 22, 2013 (SPX)
Using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system featuring multiple planets orbitin...
Astronomer see misaligned planets in distant system
Oct 18, 2013 (SPX)
data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system featuring multiple planets orbiting at a...
Water discovered in remnants of extrasolar rocky world orbiting white dwarf
Oct 16, 2013 (SPX)
Astrophysicists have found the first evidence of a water-rich rocky planetary body outside our solar system in its shattered remains orbiting a white dwarf. A n...
Blurring the lines between stars and planets
Oct 15, 2013 (SPX)
Astronomers including Niall Deacon of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) captured an image of an unusual free-floating planet. As the object has no h...
Kepler Finds First Signs of Other Earths
Oct 14, 2013 (SPX)
A new analysis of observations from the Kepler spacecraft reveals what may be the first earth-sized planets with earthlike temperatures found orbiting sunlike s...
Space 'graveyard' reveals bits of an Earth-like planet
Oct 10, 2013 (AFP)
Astronomers have autopsied a distant, broken apart planet and revealed signs of water and a rocky surface together for the first time, delighting scientists on ...
Diamond 'super-earth' may not be quite as precious
Oct 10, 2013 (SPX)
A planet 40 light years from our solar system, believed to be the first-ever discovered planet to consist largely of diamond, may in fact be of less exquisite n...
Lonely planet without a star discovered wandering our galaxy
Oct 09, 2013 (UPI)
An exotic young planet free-floating through the Milky Way galaxy rather than orbiting any star is practically a newborn in cosmic terms, astronomers say. Dubbe...
Scientists generate first map of clouds on an exoplanet
Oct 08, 2013 (SPX)
On the exoplanet Kepler 7b, the weather is highly predictable, an international team of scientists has found: On any given day, the exoplanet, which orbits a st...
Researchers Find that Bright Nearby Double Star Fomalhaut Is Actually a Triple
Oct 08, 2013 (SPX)
The nearby star system Fomalhaut - of special interest for its unusual exoplanet and dusty debris disk - has been discovered to be not just a double star, as as...
NASA Space Telescopes Find Patchy Clouds On Exotic World
Oct 07, 2013 (JPL)
Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes have created the first cloud map of a planet beyond our solar system, a sizzling, Jupiter...
Nearby binary star system gets officially confirmed third member
Oct 04, 2013 (UPI)
The nearby star system Fomalhaut, with its exoplanet and dusty debris disk, is not just a double star, it's an unusual triple star, a U.S astronomer reports. Er...
Astronomers create first cloud map of distant planet
Oct 01, 2013 (UPI)
U.S. astronomers say data from NASA space telescopes have allowed them to create the first cloud map of a planet beyond our solar system. The cloud map of Keple...
How Engineers Revamped Spitzer to Probe Exoplanets
Sep 27, 2013 (JPL)
Now approaching its 10th anniversary, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has evolved into a premier observatory for an endeavor not envisioned in its original desig...
ESA selects SSTL to design Exoplanet satellite mission
Sep 15, 2013 (SPX)
Surrey Satellite Technology has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the competitive design phase of CHEOPS science satellite, which will improv...
Coldest Brown Dwarfs Blur Lines between Stars and Planets
Sep 11, 2013 (SPX)
Cambridge, MA - Astronomers are constantly on the hunt for ever-colder star-like bodies, and two years ago a new class of objects was discovered by researchers ...
NASA-funded Program Helps Amateur Astronomers Detect Alien Worlds
Sep 09, 2013 (SPX)
A new program will let amateur astronomers detect exoplanets - worlds outside our solar system - by observing nearby bright stars and recording faint dips in th...
Observations strongly suggest distant super-Earth has water atmosphere
Sep 04, 2013 (UPI)
Japanese researchers say observation of a distant exoplanet in the center of the Milky Way suggests the "super-Earth" likely has a water-rich atmosphere. Super-...
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