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Probing Exoplanets from the Ground: A Little Telescope Goes a Long Way
NASA astronomers have
successfully demonstrated
that a David of a telescope
can tackle Goliath-size
questions in the quest to
... > full story
Second Smallest Exoplanet Spotted: Discovery Highlights New Potential for Eventually Finding Earth-Mass Planets
Astronomers using the highly
sensitive 10-meter Keck I
telescope atop Hawaii's
Mauna Kea have detected an
extrasolar planet with a
... > full story
Astronomers Capture First Direct Spectrum of an Exoplanet
By studying a triple
planetary system that
resembles a scaled-up
version of our own Sun's
family of planets,
astronomers have been able
... > full story
Most Earth-Like Exoplanet Ever Found Started out as a Gas Giant
The most Earth-like planet
yet found around another
star may be the rocky
remains of a Saturn-sized
gas giant. ... > full story
- Probing Exoplanets from the Ground: A Little Telescope Goes a Long Way
- Second Smallest Exoplanet Spotted: Discovery Highlights New Potential for Eventually Finding Earth-Mass Planets
- Astronomers Capture First Direct Spectrum of an Exoplanet
- Most Earth-Like Exoplanet Ever Found Started out as a Gas Giant
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How Earth Survived Its Birth: New Simulation Reveals Planet Migration Prevents Plunge Into Sun
January 8, 2010 — New simulations show how planets form and maintain an orbit around a developing solar system. Until now, models plunged Earth-like objects into the stars they ... > full story -
Sun Glints Seen from Space Signal Oceans and Lakes
January 7, 2010 — In two new videos from NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft, bright flashes of light known as sun glints act as beacons signaling large bodies of water on Earth. These observations give scientists a way to ... > full story -
First Earth-Like Planet Spotted Outside Solar System Likely a Volcanic Wasteland
January 7, 2010 — When scientists confirmed in October that they had detected the first rocky planet outside our solar system, it advanced the longtime quest to find an Earth-like planet hospitable to life. The rocky ... > full story -
In All the Universe, Just 15 Percent of Solar Systems Are Like Ours
January 6, 2010 — In their quest to find solar systems analogous to ours, astronomers have determined how common our solar system is. They've concluded that about 10 percent of stars in the universe host systems of ... > full story -
Five New Exoplanets Discovered By NASA's Kepler Space Telescope
January 4, 2010 — NASA's Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar ... > full story -
Keck Telescopes Gaze Into Young Star's 'Life Zone'
December 25, 2009 — The inner regions of young planet-forming disks offer information about how worlds like Earth form, but not a single telescope in the world can see them. Yet, for the first time, astronomers using ... > full story -
Brown Dwarf Pair Mystifies Astronomers
December 23, 2009 — Two brown dwarf-sized objects orbiting a giant old star show that planets may assemble around stars more quickly and efficiently than anyone thought possible, according to an international team of ... > full story -
Avatar's Moon Pandora Could Be Real, Planet-Hunters Say
December 18, 2009 — In the new blockbuster Avatar, humans visit the habitable -- and inhabited -- alien moon called Pandora. Life-bearing moons like Pandora or the Star Wars forest moon of Endor are a staple of science ... > full story -
Astronomers Find Super-Earth Orbiting Red Dwarf Star; May Have Atmosphere
December 16, 2009 — Astronomers have discovered a "super-Earth" orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth. They found the distant planet with a small fleet of ground-based telescopes no larger than those many ... > full story -
First Super-Earths Discovered Orbiting Sun-Like Stars
December 14, 2009 — Planet hunters have discovered as many as six low-mass planets around two nearby Sun-like stars, including two "super-Earths" with masses 5 and 7.5 times the mass of Earth. These detections indicate ... > full story
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