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Astronomers Find First Habitable Earth-Like Planet
April 24, 2007 — Astronomers have discovered the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date, an exoplanet with a radius only 50 percent larger than the Earth and capable of having liquid ... > full story -
Dying Sun-Like Stars Leave Whirlpools In Their Wake
April 19, 2007 — Astronomers based at Jodrell Bank Observatory have found evidence that giant whirlpools form in the wake of stars as they move through clouds in interstellar space. Scientists used the COBRA ... > full story -
Astronomers Map Out Planetary Danger Zone
April 18, 2007 — Astronomers have laid down the cosmic equivalent of yellow "caution" tape around super hot stars, marking the zones where cooler stars are in danger of having their developing planets blasted ... > full story -
Search For Extrasolar Planets And Extraterrestrial Life Improved With Darwin's Frictionless Optics
April 12, 2007 — ESA's Darwin mission will look for extrasolar planets and signs of life. New optical components feature a frictionless mechanism that can respond to the touch of a ... > full story -
Future Space Telescopes Could Detect Earth Twin
April 11, 2007 — For the first time ever, NASA researchers have successfully demonstrated in the laboratory that a space telescope rigged with special masks and mirrors could snap a photo of an Earth-like planet ... > full story -
NASA Predicts Nongreen Plants On Other Planets
April 11, 2007 — NASA scientists believe they have found a way to predict the color of plants on planets in other solar systems. Green, yellow or even red-dominant plants may live on extra-solar planets, according to ... > full story -
Water Identified In Extrasolar Planet Atmosphere
April 10, 2007 — For the first time, water has been identified in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet. Through a combination of previously published Hubble Space Telescope measurements and new theoretical models, ... > full story -
Deep Impact Mission: Aiming For Close-Ups Of Extrasolar Planets
April 10, 2007 — Deep Impact may be able to observe three nearby stars with "transiting extrasolar planets," so named because the planet transits, or passes in front of, its star. The planets were discovered earlier ... > full story -
NASA Telescope Finds Planets Thrive Around Stellar Twins
April 4, 2007 — The double sunset that Luke Skywalker gazed upon in the film "Star Wars" might not be a fantasy. Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have observed that planetary systems -- dusty disks ... > full story -
Dust Clouds In Cosmic Cycle
April 4, 2007 — It has been a mystery for astronomers how certain dying stars have their colossal quantities of material blown out into the universe and shrink into objects called "white dwarves." This is the basis ... > full story
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