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Modeling Jupiter and Saturn's Possible Origins
March 5, 2013 — New theoretical modeling provides clues to how the gas giant planets in our solar system -- Jupiter and Saturn -- might have formed and ... > full story -
Birth of a Giant Planet? Candidate Protoplanet Spotted Inside Its Stellar Womb
February 28, 2013 — Astronomers have obtained what is likely the first direct observation of a forming planet still embedded in a thick disc of gas and dust. If confirmed, this discovery will greatly improve our ... > full story -
Future Evidence for Extraterrestrial Life Might Come from Dying Stars
February 25, 2013 — Even dying stars could host planets with life -- and if such life exists, we might be able to detect it within the next decade. This encouraging result comes from a new theoretical study of ... > full story -
NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Tiny Planet System: Smallest Planet Yet Found Around a Star Similar to Our Sun
February 20, 2013 — 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 planets are located in a system called ... > full story -
Hunt for Distant Planets Intensifies
February 18, 2013 — Armed with new tools, astronomers search for worlds like ... > full story -
Earth-Size Planets May Be Next Door, Kepler Data Suggest
February 6, 2013 — Using publicly available data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, astronomers have found that six percent of red dwarf stars have habitable, Earth-sized planets. Since red dwarfs are the most common ... > full story -
Are Super-Earths Actually Mini-Neptunes?
February 4, 2013 — 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 that are thought to have a high proportion ... > full story -
Herschel Finds Past-Prime Star May Be Making Planets
January 30, 2013 — 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 called TW Hydrae may be massive enough to ... > full storyMore: -
Researchers Develop Model for Identifying Habitable Zones Around Star
January 30, 2013 — 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 zone, where they could be capable of ... > full story -
Origin and Maintenance of a Retrograde Exoplanet
January 25, 2013 — Astronomers have shown that the HAT-P-7 planetary system, which is about 1040 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus, includes at least two giant planets and one companion star. The ... > full story
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