
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
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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
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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
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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
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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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