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Distant World In Peril Discovered From La Silla; Giant Exoplanet Orbits Giant Star
January 23, 2003 — When, in a distant future, the Sun begins to expand and evolves into a "giant" star, the surface temperature on the Earth will rise dramatically and our home planet will eventually be ... > full story -
Hubble Makes Precise Measure Of Extrasolar World's True Mass
December 5, 2002 — NASA Hubble Space Telescope's crisp view has allowed an international team of astronomers to apply a previously unproven technique (astrometry) for making a precise measurement of the mass of a ... > full story -
Jupiter-Like Planets Formed In Hundreds – Not Millions – Of Years, Study Shows
December 2, 2002 — An accepted assumption in astrophysics holds that it takes more than 1 million years for gas giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn to form from the cosmic debris circling a young star. But new ... > full story -
UCLA, British Astronomers Discover The Wake Of A Planet Around A Nearby Star – Strong Evidence For Solar Systems Like Ours
October 11, 2002 — An international team of astronomers reports the first strong evidence for the existence of massive planets on wide orbits -- like those of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune -- around many stars. The new ... > full story -
100th Extra-Solar Planet Gives Clues To Origins Of Planets
September 23, 2002 — British astronomers, together with Australian and American colleagues, have used the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope [AAT] in New South Wales, Australia to discover a new planet outside our Solar ... > full story -
The Sun: A Great Ball Of Iron?
July 17, 2002 — For years, scientists have assumed that the sun is an enormous mass of hydrogen. But in a poster presentation to be delivered July 21-26 at the Meteoritical Society's annual meeting in Los ... > full story -
Newfound Planetary System Has "Hometown" Look
June 14, 2002 — After 15 years of observation and a lot of patience, the world's premier planet-hunting team has found a planetary system that reminds them of our home solar ... > full story -
Teenage Stars: Rebels Without A Known Cause
May 3, 2002 — Normally, a young star gets smaller as its gravity pulls gas and dust in toward its center; the smaller the star gets, the faster it spins. But a scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ... > full story -
Off-The-Shelf Camera Device To Hunt For Distant Planets
March 13, 2002 — It could fit on your desk, and it's made mostly from parts bought at a camera shop, but two scientists believe their new instrument will help them find a slew of large planets orbiting stars in ... > full story -
Planets Of The Phoenix: Astronomers Predict Rebirth Of Planetary Systems In The Embers Of Dead Stars
January 8, 2002 — A new way to identify planetary systems around nearby stars, and a possible new explanation for the mysterious properties of certain strange white-dwarf stars, will be presented at the annual meeting ... > full story
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