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Two Unusual Older Stars Giving Birth To Second Wave Of Planets
January 9, 2008 — Hundreds of millions, or billions, of years after planets would initially have formed around two unusual stars, astronomers believe a second wave of planets now appear to be forming around these ... > full story -
Red Dust In Planet-Forming Disk May Harbor Precursors To Life
January 3, 2008 — Astronomers have found the first indications of highly complex organic molecules in the disk of red dust surrounding a distant star. The eight-million-year-old star, known as HR 4796A, is inferred to ... > full story -
Exoplanet Reflected Light Detected For The First Time
December 26, 2007 — For the first time ever, astronomers have detected and monitored the visible light that is scattered in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. Employing techniques similar to how Polaroid sunglasses filter ... > full story -
COROT Surprises A Year After Launch
December 20, 2007 — The space-borne telescope, COROT (Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits), has just completed its first year in orbit. The observatory has brought in surprises after over 300 days of scientific ... > full story -
Deep Impact Spacecraft Heads For Comet Hartley 2
December 15, 2007 — The Deep Impact spacecraft is heading to Comet Hartley 2 on a two-part extended mission known as EPOXI. The spacecraft will fly by Earth on New Year's Eve at the beginning of a more than ... > full story -
Gliese 581: Extrasolar Planet Might Indeed Be Habitable
December 13, 2007 — In April, a European team of astronomers announced the discovery of two possibly habitable Earth-like planets. Two new detailed studies of this system confirm that one of the planets might indeed be ... > full story -
Solving Solar System Quandaries Is Simple: Just Flip-Flop The Position Of Uranus And Neptune
December 11, 2007 — The planets in our solar system weren't always in the order they are today. Four billion years ago, early in the solar system's evolution, Uranus and Neptune switched places, according to new work by ... > full story -
Hazy Red Sunset On Extrasolar Planet
December 11, 2007 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers a fascinating new insight into the atmosphere of a planet in orbit around another star. The observations provide evidence of the presence of ... > full story -
Really Big Planets: When Do Gas Giants Reach The Point Of No Return?
December 5, 2007 — Astronomers have identified the point at which a star causes the atmosphere of an orbiting gas giant to become critically unstable. Depending upon their proximity to a host star, giant Jupiter-like ... > full story -
Astronomers Find Stellar Cradle Where Planets Form
November 29, 2007 — Astronomers have found the first clear evidence for a cradle in space where planets and moons form. The cradle, revealed in photographs taken with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, consists of a ... > full story
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