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Stellar Winds May Electrify Exoplanets
Jun 06, 2013 (SPX)
The strangest class of exoplanets found to date might be even stranger than astronomers have thought. A new model suggests that they are partially heated by ele...
Little Scope Discovers Metal-Poor Cousin of Famous Planet
Jun 06, 2013 (SPX)
A scientific team led by University of Louisville doctoral student Karen Collins has discovered a hot Saturn-like planet in another solar system 700 light-years...
Lightest exoplanet imaged so far?
Jun 05, 2013 (SPX)
Although nearly a thousand exoplanets have been detected indirectly - most using the radial velocity or transit methods - and many more candidates await confirm...
Rare Stellar Alignment Offers Opportunity To Hunt For Planets
Jun 05, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will have two opportunities in the next few years to hunt for Earth-sized planets around the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. The oppor...
Scouting for Not-So-Distant Worlds
Jun 04, 2013 (SPX)
After it blasted off into space in 2009, NASA's Kepler Space Telescope sniffed out thousands of potential planets around other stars, simply by watching for the...
In feat, telescope directly spots lightweight exoplanet
Jun 03, 2013 (AFP)
Breaking new ground in the detection of planets beyond our solar system, European astronomers on Monday said they had recorded the most lightweight world to be ...
Big Weather on Hot Jupiters
May 28, 2013 (SPX)
Among the hundreds of new planets discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft are a class of exotic worlds known as "hot Jupiters." Unlike the giant planets of our o...
New Method of Finding Planets Scores its First Discovery
May 16, 2013 (SPX)
Detecting alien worlds presents a significant challenge since they are small, faint, and close to their stars. The two most prolific techniques for finding exop...
Kepler's Dozen - 13 Stories About Distant Worlds That Really Exist
May 15, 2013 (SPX)
For centuries, humans have pondered what life on other planets beyond our solar system might be like. With the launch of the Kepler spacecraft in 2009 we now ha...
Team Takes Part in Discovering New Planet
May 15, 2013 (SPX)
For the past two years, Professor Tsevi Mazeh and his PhD student, Simchon Faigler, from the School of Physics and Astronomy at TAU, have been searching for pla...
Critical Kepler Reaction Wheel Fails: Mission End In Sight
May 15, 2013 (SPX)
The Kepler mission team reported Wednesdau that Kepler spacecraft is once again in safe mode. As was the case earlier this month, this was a Thruster-Controlled...
Sifting Through the Atmosphere's of Far-Off Worlds
May 14, 2013 (JPL)
Gone are the days of being able to count the number of known planets on your fingers. Today, there are more than 800 confirmed exoplanets -- planets that orbit ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Finds Dead Stars Polluted with Planet Debris
May 13, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found the building blocks for Earth-sized planets in an unlikely place-- the atmospheres of a pair of burned-out stars called ...
NASA's Spitzer Puts Planets in a Petri Dish
May 07, 2013 (JPL)
Our galaxy is teeming with a wild variety of planets. In addition to our solar system's eight near-and-dear planets, there are more than 800 so-called exoplanet...
Two New Exoplanets Detected with Kepler, SOPHIE and HARPS-N
May 02, 2013 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers, including Alexandre Santerne of the EXOEarths team at CAUP, has identified and characterized two new exoplanets thanks to ...
Alien planet's rotation speed clocked for first time
Apr 30, 2013 (UPI)
Tired of the nine-to-five, the eight-hour work day? At least Earth's 24-hour day leaves some time for eating and sleeping. On Beta Pictoris b, the alien planet ...
Astronomer studies far-off worlds through 'characterization by proxy'
Apr 29, 2013 (SPX)
A University of Washington astronomer is using Earth's interstellar neighbors to learn the nature of certain stars too far away to be directly measured or obser...
Mysterious Hot Spots Observed In A Cool Red Supergiant
Apr 26, 2013 (SPX)
Astronomers have released a new image of the outer atmosphere of Betelgeuse -- one of the nearest red supergiants to Earth -- revealing the detailed structure o...
Orbital Selected By NASA for TESS Astrophysics Satellite
Apr 26, 2013 (SPX)
Orbital Sciences has been selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to design, manufacture, integrate and test a new astrophysics sat...
Star-and Planet-Forming Regions May Hold Key to Life's Chirality
Apr 26, 2013 (SPX)
Life on Earth is made of left-handed amino acids (L-amino acids). The question of why organisms on Earth consist of L-amino acids instead of D-amino acids or co...
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