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Earth-Sized Planets in Habitable Zones Are More Common Than Previously Thought
March 12, 2013 — The number of potentially habitable planets is greater than previously thought, according to a new analysis by a Penn State researcher, and some of those planets are likely lurking around nearby ... > full story -
Astronomers Conduct First Remote Reconnaissance of Another Planetary System
March 11, 2013 — Researchers have conducted a remote reconnaissance of a distant planetary system with a new telescope imaging system that sifts through the blinding light of stars. Using a suite of high-tech ... > full storyMore: -
Closest Star System Found in a Century
March 11, 2013 — A pair of newly discovered stars is the third-closest star system to the Sun and the closest discovered since 1916. At 6.5 light years, it is so close that Earth's television transmissions from 2006 ... > full story -
Modeling Jupiter and Saturn's Possible Origins
March 5, 2013 — New theoretical modeling provides clues to how the gas giant planets in our solar system -- Jupiter and Saturn -- might have formed and ... > full story -
Birth of a Giant Planet? Candidate Protoplanet Spotted Inside Its Stellar Womb
February 28, 2013 — Astronomers have obtained what is likely the first direct observation of a forming planet still embedded in a thick disc of gas and dust. If confirmed, this discovery will greatly improve our ... > full story -
Future Evidence for Extraterrestrial Life Might Come from Dying Stars
February 25, 2013 — Even dying stars could host planets with life -- and if such life exists, we might be able to detect it within the next decade. This encouraging result comes from a new theoretical study of ... > full story -
NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Tiny Planet System: Smallest Planet Yet Found Around a Star Similar to Our Sun
February 20, 2013 — NASA's Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star similar to our sun. The planets are located in a system called ... > full story -
Hunt for Distant Planets Intensifies
February 18, 2013 — Armed with new tools, astronomers search for worlds like ... > full story -
Earth-Size Planets May Be Next Door, Kepler Data Suggest
February 6, 2013 — Using publicly available data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, astronomers have found that six percent of red dwarf stars have habitable, Earth-sized planets. Since red dwarfs are the most common ... > full story -
Are Super-Earths Actually Mini-Neptunes?
February 4, 2013 — In the last two decades astronomers have found hundreds of planets in orbit around other stars. One type of these so-called 'exoplanets' is the super-Earths that are thought to have a high proportion ... > full story
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