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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 -
Even 'Failed Stars' Can Form Planets
October 26, 2005 — Astronomers from German, American, and Italian research institutes have used NASA's SPITZER space telescope to discover that there is at least the beginnings of planet formation around brown dwarfs, ... > full story -
Tenth Planet Has A Moon
October 3, 2005 — The newly discovered 10th planet, 2003 UB313, is looking more and more like one of the solar system's major players. It has the heft of a real planet (latest estimates put it at about 20 percent ... > full story -
NASA Takes Giant Step Toward Finding Earth-Like Planets
September 30, 2005 — Are there planets like Earth around other "suns" that might harbor life? Thanks to a recent technology breakthrough on a key NASA planet-finding project, the dream of answering those questions is no ... > full story
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