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Kepler Discovers its Smallest Habitable Zone Planets
Apr 23, 2013 (JPL)
NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a...
Kepler Discovers Its Smallest Habitable Zone Planets
Apr 22, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a...
Notre Dame astrophysicist discovers 5-planet system like Earth
Apr 19, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers for the first time have identified Earth-sized planets within the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Images of the star taken by Notre Dame astrophy...
New Techniques Allow Discovery Of Smallest Super-Earth Exoplanets
Apr 19, 2013 (SPX)
A University of Washington astronomer, funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, has discovered perhaps the...
Astronomers find most Earth-like planets yet
Apr 18, 2013 (AFP)
Using a potent NASA space telescope to scan the skies for planets like ours where life might exist, astronomers said Thursday they have found the most Earth-lik...
Five-Planet System With Most Earth-Like Exoplanet Yet Found
Apr 18, 2013 (SPX)
A University of Washington astronomer has discovered perhaps the most Earth-like planet yet found outside the solar system by the Kepler Space Telescope. Eric A...
Kepler Finds Two Water Worlds 1200 Lights Years Away
Apr 17, 2013 (SPX)
In our solar system, only one planet is blessed with an ocean: Earth. Our home world is a rare, blue jewel compared to the deserts of Mercury, Venus and Mars. B...
Can One Buy the Right to Name a Planet?
Apr 15, 2013 (SPX)
In the light of recent events, where the possibility of buying the rights to name exoplanets has been advertised, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) wis...
Retired Star Found With Planets And Debris Disc
Apr 10, 2013 (ESA)
ESA's Herschel space observatory has provided the first images of a dust belt - produced by colliding comets or asteroids - orbiting a subgiant star known to ho...
NASA Selects Explorer Investigations for Formulation
Apr 06, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's Astrophysics Explorer Program has selected two missions for launch in 2017: a planet-hunting satellite and an International Space Station instrument to o...
Astronomers Anticipate 100 Billion Earth-Like Planets
Apr 04, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at The University of Auckland have proposed a new method for finding Earth-like planets, and they anticipate that the number will be in the order of...
The Great Exoplanet Debate Part Four
Apr 02, 2013 (SPX)
At the 2012 Astrobiology Science Conference, Astrobiology Magazine hosted a plenary session titled: "Expanding the Habitable Zone: The Hunt for Exoplanets Now a...
Astronomers Detect Water in Atmosphere of Distant Planet
Mar 20, 2013 (SPX)
A team of international scientists using the W. M. Keck Observatory has made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere of a Jupiter-size planet beyond...
Water signature in distant planet shows clues to its formation
Mar 19, 2013 (SPX)
A team of international scientists including a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory astrophysicist has made the most detailed examination yet of the atmospher...
Distant planetary system is a super-sized solar system
Mar 18, 2013 (SPX)
A team of astronomers, including Quinn Konopacky of the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, has made the most detailed exami...
Astronomers Observe Planets Around Another Star Like Never Before
Mar 14, 2013 (SPX)
Thanks to a new high-tech gadget, astronomers have observed four planets orbiting a star relatively close to the sun in unprecedented detail, revealing the roug...
Earth-sized planets in habitable zones are more common than previously thought
Mar 14, 2013 (SPX)
The number of potentially habitable planets is greater than previously thought, according to a new analysis by a Penn State researcher, and some of those planet...
The Great Exoplanet Debate
Mar 14, 2013 (SPX)
At the 2012 Astrobiology Science Conference, Astrobiology Magazine hosted a plenary session titled: "Expanding the Habitable Zone. The Hunt for Exoplanets Now a...
Astronomers Conduct First Remote Reconnaissance of Another Solar System
Mar 12, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers have conducted a remote reconnaissance of a distant solar system with a new telescope imaging system that sifts through the blinding light of stars....
The Birth of a Giant Planet?
Mar 06, 2013 (SPX)
Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have obtained what is likely the first direct observation of a forming planet still embedded in a thick disc of gas...
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