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15 New Planets Hint At Traffic Jam Of Moons In Habitable Zone
Jan 09, 2013 (SPX)
Volunteers from the Planethunters.org website, part of the Oxford University-led Zooniverse project, have discovered 15 new planet candidates orbiting in the ha...
Within 'Habitable Zone,' More Planets than We Knew
Jan 09, 2013 (SPX)
The number of known places in our galaxy theoretically hospitable to life may be significantly greater than previously thought, according to new research. Resea...
Exocomets may be as common as exoplanets
Jan 09, 2013 (SPX)
Comets trailing wispy tails across the night sky are a beautiful byproduct of our solar system's formation, icy leftovers from 4.6 billion years ago when the pl...
At Least One in Six Stars Has an Earth-sized Planet
Jan 09, 2013 (SPX)
The quest for a twin Earth is heating up. Using NASA's Kepler spacecraft, astronomers are beginning to find Earth-sized planets orbiting distant stars. A new an...
Kepler Gets a Little Help From Its Friends
Jan 09, 2013 (JPL)
More than 2,300 exoplanet candidate discoveries have made it the most prolific planet hunter in history. But even NASA's Kepler mission needs a little help from...
Research: Smaller exoplanets found to be covered in gas
Jan 08, 2013 (UPI)
U.S. researchers say they were surprised to find a number of exoplanets in the Milky Way that are only a few times bigger than Earth but covered in gas. "This i...
Astrophysicists find wide binary stars wreak havoc in planetary systems
Jan 08, 2013 (SPX)
An international team of astrophysicists has shown that planetary systems with very distant binary stars are particularly susceptible to violent disruptions, mo...
NASA Kepler hints at over 250 new potentially habitable worlds
Jan 07, 2013 (SPX)
NASA Kepler released last month 18,406 planet-like detection events from its last three year mission to search for exoplanets (Kepler Q1-Q12 TCE). Further analy...
'17 billion' Earth-sized planets in Milky Way: study
Jan 07, 2013 (AFP)
The Milky Way contains at least 17 billion planets the size of Earth, and likely many more, according to a study out Monday that raises the chances of discoveri...
Planet-hunting telescope camera returns first images of exoplanets
Jan 07, 2013 (UPI)
U.S. astronomers say the world's most powerful exoplanet-hunting camera has turned it eye to the skies and returned its first images. The Gemini Planet Imager, ...
Billions and Billions of Planets
Jan 04, 2013 (SPX)
Look up at the night sky and you'll see stars, sure. But you're also seeing planets-billions and billions of them. At least. That's the conclusion of a new stud...
ALMA Shows How Young Star and Planets Grow Simultaneously
Jan 04, 2013 (SPX)
Astronomers have used the ALMA telescope to get their first glimpse of a fascinating stage of star formation in which planets forming around a young star are he...
A stray planet
Jan 01, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
Some time ago, scientists discovered that there are planets that do not rotate around any star, like the Earth rotates around the Sun, but "travel" in the unive...
Closest sun-like star may have planets
Dec 24, 2012 (SPX)
An international team of scientists, including Carnegie's Paul Butler, has discovered that Tau Ceti, one of the closest and most Sun-like stars, may have five p...
Spiral Structure of Disk May Reveal Planets
Dec 24, 2012 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers has used HiCIAO (High Contrast Instrument for the Subaru Next Generation Optics) (Note 1) to observe a disk around the youn...
Venus transit and lunar mirror could help astronomers find worlds around other stars
Dec 19, 2012 (SPX)
On 6 June 2012 Venus passed directly between the Earth and the Sun, in a so-called transit where the planet appears as a silhouette against the solar disk, some...
Nearby star is good candidate for Earth-like planets
Dec 19, 2012 (AFP)
Tau Ceti, one of our closest stars, is a good candidate for hosting an Earth-like planet, astronomers reported on Wednesday. Located a relatively close 12 light...
Astronomers discover and 'weigh' infant solar system
Dec 06, 2012 (SPX)
Astronomers have found the youngest still-forming solar system yet seen, an infant star surrounded by a swirling disk of dust and gas more than 450 light-years ...
Search for Life Suggests Solar Systems More Habitable than Ours
Dec 04, 2012 (SPX)
Scattered around the Milky Way are stars that resemble our own sun-but a new study is finding that any planets orbiting those stars may very well be hotter and ...
Brown Dwarfs May Grow Rocky Planets
Dec 04, 2012 (SPX)
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have for the first time found that the outer region of a dusty disk encircling a brown...
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