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Giant Protoplanets Migrate Inward In Lockstep
March 22, 2006 — Two British astronomers, Paul Cresswell and Richard Nelson present new numerical simulations in the framework of the challenging studies of planetary system formation. They find that, in the early ... > full story -
The Sun's New Exotic Neighbor: A Very Cool Brown Dwarf
March 22, 2006 — At a time when astronomers are peering into the most distant Universe, looking at objects as far as 13 billion light-years away, one may think that our close neighbourhood would be very well known. ... > full story -
Ideas On Gas-Giant Planet Formation Take Shape
March 22, 2006 — Rocky planets, such as Earth, are born when small particles smash together to form larger, planet-sized clusters in a disk, but researchers are less sure about how gas-giant planets form. Is core ... > full story -
Super-Earths May Be Three Times More Common Than Jupiters
March 14, 2006 — Astronomers have discovered a new "super-Earth" orbiting a red dwarf star located about 9,000 light-years away. This newfound world weighs about 13 times the mass of the Earth and is probably a ... > full story -
Most Milky Way Stars Are Single
February 6, 2006 — Common wisdom among astronomers holds that most star systems in the Milky Way are multiple, consisting of two or more stars in orbit around each other. Common wisdom is wrong. A new study by Charles ... > full story -
Closer To Home: Discovery Of Small, Rocky, Extrasolar World Suggests Such Planets May Be Common
January 26, 2006 — Using a relatively new planet-hunting technique that can spot worlds one-tenth the mass of our own, researchers have discovered a potentially rocky, icy body that may be the smallest planet yet found ... > full story -
Planet Finders Use Much Faster Instrument To Discover Distant Planet
January 12, 2006 — Astronomers have discovered a planet orbiting a very young star nearly 100 light years away using a relatively small, publicly accessible telescope turbocharged with a new planet-finding instrument. ... > full story -
Partial Ingredients For DNA And Protein Found Around Star
December 29, 2005 — NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered some of life's most basic ingredients in the dust swirling around a young star. The ingredients - gaseous precursors to DNA and protein - were detected ... > full story -
Optical Vortex Could Look Directly At Extrasolar Planets
November 30, 2005 — A new optical device might allow astronomers to view extrasolar planets directly without the annoying glare of the parent star. It would do this by "nulling" out the light of the parent star by ... > full story -
Scientists Find Possible Birth Of Tiniest Known Solar System
November 30, 2005 — Scientists using a combination of ground-based and orbiting telescopes have discovered a failed star, less than one-hundredth the mass of the sun, possibly in the process of forming a solar system. ... > full story
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