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Planet-Formation Model Indicates Earthlike Planets Might Be Common
December 11, 2003 — Astrobiologists disagree about whether advanced life is common or rare in our universe. But new research suggests that one thing is pretty certain – if an Earthlike world with significant water ... > full story -
New Evidence For Solar-Like Planetary System Around Nearby Star
December 1, 2003 — Astronomers at the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Councils UK Astronomy Technology Centre (ATC) at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh have produced compelling new evidence that Vega, one of ... > full story -
First Extrasolar Planets, Now Extrasolar Moons
October 10, 2003 — The European Space Agency is now planning a mission that can detect moons around planets outside our Solar System, those orbiting other ... > full story -
Planetary Tilt Not A Spoiler For Habitation
August 26, 2003 — In B science fiction movies, a terrible force often pushes the Earth off its axis and spells disaster for all life on Earth. In reality, life would still be possible on Earth and any Earth-like ... > full story -
Search For Life Could Include Planets, Stars Unlike Ours
August 4, 2003 — The search for life on other planets could soon extend to solar systems that are very different from our own, according to a new study by an Ohio State University astronomer and his colleagues. In ... > full story -
Stars Rich In Heavy Metals Tend To Harbor Planets
July 23, 2003 — A comparison of 754 nearby stars like our sun - some with planets and some without - shows definitively that the more iron and other metals there are in a star, the greater the chance it has a ... > full story -
Oldest Known Planet Identified
July 11, 2003 — Long before our Sun and Earth ever existed, a Jupiter-sized planet formed around a sun-like star. Now, 13 billion years later, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has precisely measured the mass of ... > full story -
Searching For The 'Real' Waterworld
July 10, 2003 — At the recent ESA co-sponsored 'Towards Other Earths' conference, nearly 250 of the world's leading experts in planet detection discussed the strategy for finding Earth-like worlds. Alain ... > full story -
Scientists Discover Planetary System Similar To Our Own
July 4, 2003 — An international team of scientists has discovered a planet and star that may share the same relationship as Jupiter and our Sun, the closest comparison that researchers have found since they began ... > full story -
Astronomers Find Seven Planet-Forming Disks, Doubling Total
May 27, 2003 — A mammoth sky survey led by University of Florida astronomers has uncovered seven planet-forming disks in clusters of young stars, doubling the number of such disks discovered and expanding the ... > full story
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