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New Evidence Indicates Auroras Occur Outside Our Solar System
January 21, 2013 — Planetary scientists have found new evidence suggesting auroras – similar to Earth’s Aurora Borealis - occur on bodies outside our solar ... > full story -
Life Possible on Extrasolar Moons
January 10, 2013 — In their search for habitable worlds, astronomers have started to consider exomoons, or those likely orbiting planets outside the solar system. In a new study, a pair of researchers has found that ... > full story -
Hubble Reveals Rogue Planetary Orbit for Fomalhaut B
January 8, 2013 — Newly released Hubble Space Telescope images of a vast debris disk encircling the nearby star Fomalhaut and a mysterious planet circling it may provide forensic evidence of a titanic planetary ... > full story -
Evidence of Asteroid Belt Around Vega
January 8, 2013 — Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the star Vega, the second brightest star in northern night skies. The discovery of an asteroid belt-like band of debris ... > full story -
Earth-Size Planets Common in Galaxy: Perhaps 17 Percent of Sun-Like Stars Have Earth-Size Planets Within the Orbit of Mercury
January 8, 2013 — Last year, astronomers were excited to discover that the number of exoplanets increases towards smaller sizes, which suggests that there are many Earth-size planets in the galaxy. A new analysis of ... > full story -
NASA's Kepler Gets a Little Help from Its Friends: Kepler's Follow-Up Observers Confirm New Discoveries
January 7, 2013 — More than 2,300 exoplanet candidate discoveries have made it the most prolific planet hunter in history. But even NASA's Kepler mission needs a little help from its friends. Enter the Kepler ... > full story -
Exocomets May Be as Common as Exoplanets
January 7, 2013 — Astronomers have found thousands of potential exoplanets and many stars with massive disks of gas and dust that suggest planets are forming, but not much of the stuff intermediate between dust and ... > full story -
At Least One in Six Stars Has an Earth-Sized Planet, Analysis Finds
January 7, 2013 — The quest for a twin Earth is heating up. Using NASA's Kepler spacecraft, astronomers are beginning to find Earth-sized planets orbiting distant stars. A new analysis of Kepler data shows that about ... > full story -
NASA's Kepler Discovers 461 New Planet Candidates
January 7, 2013 — NASA's Kepler mission Monday announced the discovery of 461 new planet candidates. Four of the potential new planets are less than twice the size of Earth and orbit in their sun's "habitable zone," ... > full story -
Fifteen New Planets Hint at 'Traffic Jam' of Moons in Habitable Zone
January 7, 2013 — Volunteers from the Planethunters.org website have discovered 15 new planet candidates orbiting in the habitable zones of other stars. Added to the 19 similar planets already discovered in habitable ... > full story
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