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Scientists spot birth of giant planet
Feb 28, 2013 (AFP)
Astronomers using a powerful telescope in southern Chile said Thursday they have captured the first direct image of a protoplanet forming around another star, s...
Kepler helps astronomers find tiny exo planet
Feb 22, 2013 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers has used nearly three years of high precision data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft to make the first observations of a planet...
NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Tiny Planet System
Feb 22, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star similar to our sun. The plan...
Searching for a Pale Blue SPHERE in the Universe
Feb 21, 2013 (SPX)
The Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) is now searching for Earth-like worlds. The PHL maintains the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog (HEC) in which exoplanets...
Scientist: Exoplanet research needs less hype, more patience
Feb 18, 2013 (UPI)
The search for exoplanets and alien life is generating a lot of hype but the study needs patience and refinement, a U.S. review of exoplanet research suggests. ...
Earth-like planets are right next door
Feb 11, 2013 (SPX)
Using publicly available data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have found that six perce...
Direct Infrared Image Of An Arm In Disk Demonstrates Transition To Planet Formation
Feb 11, 2013 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers led by Satoshi Mayama (Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan) and Ruobing Dong (Princeton University, U.S.A.) has...
Kepler Data Suggest Earth-size Planets May Be Next Door
Feb 08, 2013 (JPL)
Using publicly available data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics estimate that six percent of re...
Earth-like planets may be closer than thought: study
Feb 06, 2013 (AFP)
Scientists looking for habitable planets may not have to stray far from our galactic neighborhood, said a new study Wednesday, which calculated an Earth-size pl...
Are Super-Earths Actually Mini-Neptunes?
Feb 06, 2013 (SPX)
In the last two decades astronomers have found hundreds of planets in orbit around other stars. One type of these so-called 'exoplanets' is the super-Earths tha...
Researchers develop model for identifying habitable zones around star
Feb 04, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers searching the galaxy for planets that could pass the litmus test of sustaining water-based life must find whether those planets fall in a habitable ...
Herschel Finds Past-Prime Star May Be Making Planets
Feb 04, 2013 (JPL)
A star thought to have passed the age at which it can form planets may, in fact, be creating new worlds. The disk of material surrounding the surprising star ca...
TW Hydrae: There's more to astronomers' favorite planetary nursery than previously thought
Feb 01, 2013 (SPX)
Using ESA's Herschel Space Telescope, astronomers including Thomas Henning from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg have used a new method to d...
The Origin And Maintenance Of A Retrograde Exoplanet
Jan 29, 2013 (SPX)
Astronomers have used the Subaru Telescope to show that the HAT-P-7 planetary system, which is about 1040 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus, in...
Astronomers create first map of weather on nearby brown dwarf star
Jan 29, 2013 (UPI)
Astronomers say they've used a telescope in Chile to create the first-ever map of the weather on the surface of the nearest brown dwarf star to Earth. An intern...
New Evidence Indicates Auroras Occur Outside Our Solar System
Jan 23, 2013 (SPX)
University of Leicester planetary scientists have found new evidence suggesting auroras -- similar to Earth's Aurora Borealis -- occur on bodies outside our sol...
Glitch has space telescope shut down
Jan 21, 2013 (UPI)
NASA says its planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has been shut down to a precautionary "safe mode" due to problems with its orientation mechanism. The action...
Earth-size planets common in galaxy
Jan 11, 2013 (SPX)
An analysis of the first three years of data from NASA's Kepler mission, which already has discovered thousands of potential exoplanets, contains good news for ...
NASA's Hubble Reveals Rogue Planetary Orbit For Fomalhaut B
Jan 10, 2013 (SPX)
Newly released NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of a vast debris disk encircling the nearby star Fomalhaut and a mysterious planet circling it may provide for...
NASA, ESA Telescopes Find Evidence for Asteroid Belt Around Vega
Jan 10, 2013 (JPL)
Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the star Vega, the second brightest star in northern night skies. The scientists use...
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