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Exoplanets Clue To Sun's Curious Chemistry
A ground-breaking census of
500 stars, 70 of which are
known to host planets, has
successfully linked the
long-standing "lithium
mystery" observed in the Sun
... > full story
Unsettled Youth: Spitzer Observes A Chaotic Planetary System
Before our planets found
their way to the stable
orbits they circle in today,
they wiggled and jostled
about like unsettled
... > full story
Astronomers Find Organic Molecules Around Gas Planet
Peering far beyond our solar
system, NASA researchers
have detected the basic
chemistry for life in a
second hot gas planet,
advancing astronomers toward
... > full story
Towards Other Earths: 32 New Exoplanets Found
Astronomers are reporting
the incredible discovery of
some 32 new exoplanets,
using the High Accuracy
Radial Velocity Planet
Searcher, better known as
... > full story
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The CoRoT Satellite : 3 More Years To Hunt For Planets And To Listen To The Music Of Stars
November 6, 2009 — The operations of the CoRoT mission has been extended for three additional years, until 31 March ... > full story -
Galileo's Notebooks May Reveal Secrets Of New Planet
October 24, 2009 — Galileo knew he had discovered a new planet in 1613, 234 years before its official discovery date, according to a new ... > full story -
Dirty Stars Make Good Solar System Hosts
October 6, 2009 — New research based on 3-D simulations explains why dirty stars -- those with a high abundance of heavy elements, or high metallicity -- tend to have accompanying solar ... > full story -
Raining Pebbles: Rocky Exoplanet Has Bizarre Atmosphere, Simulation Suggests
October 1, 2009 — Tidally locked with its star and orbiting very close to it, the exoplanet Corot-7b is hot enough to melt rock on its star-facing side. Its atmosphere consists of the components of silicate rocks in ... > full story -
NASA's Spitzer Spots Clump Of Swirling Planetary Material
September 24, 2009 — Astronomers have witnessed odd behavior around a young star. Something, perhaps another star or a planet, appears to be pushing a clump of planet-forming material around. The observations, made with ... > full story -
Exotic Life Beyond Life? Looking For Life As We Don't Know It
September 21, 2009 — Scientists at a new interdisciplinary research institute in Austria are working to uncover how life might evolve with “exotic” biochemistry and solvents, such as sulphuric acid instead of ... > full story -
First Solid Evidence For A Rocky Exoplanet: Mass And Density Of Smallest Exoplanet Finally Measured
September 16, 2009 — The longest set of HARPS measurements ever made has firmly established the nature of the smallest and fastest-orbiting exoplanet known, CoRoT-7b, revealing its mass as five times that of Earth's. ... > full story -
Will Kepler Find Habitable Moons?
September 3, 2009 — Since the launch of the NASA Kepler Mission earlier this year, astronomers have been keenly awaiting the first detection of an Earth-like planet around another star. Now, in an echo of science ... > full story -
Huge New Planet Orbits 'Wrong' Way Around Star; Tells Of Game Of Planetary Billiards
August 28, 2009 — A team of scientists has found a new planet which orbits the wrong way around its host star. The planet, named WASP-17, and orbiting a star 1000 light years away, was found by the UK's WASP project ... > full story -
Extrasolar Hot Jupiter: The Planet That 'Shouldn’t Exist'
August 27, 2009 — A planet has been discovered with ten times the mass of Jupiter, but which orbits its star in less than one ... > full story
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