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NASA's Kepler Discovers Multiple Planets Orbiting a Pair of Stars
August 28, 2012 — Coming less than a year after the announcement of the first circumbinary planet, Kepler-16b, NASA's Kepler mission has discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first time. ... > full storyMore: -
More Exoplanets Discovered: 41 New Transiting Planets in Kepler Field of View
August 23, 2012 — Two newly submitted studies verify 41 new transiting planets in 20 star systems. These results may increase the number of Kepler's confirmed planets by more than 50 percent: to 116 planets hosted in ... > full story -
First Evidence Discovered of Planet's Destruction by Its Star
August 20, 2012 — The first evidence of a planet's destruction by its aging star has been discovered by an international team of astronomers. A similar fate may await the Earth and other inner planets in our solar ... > full story -
Exoplanet-Hosting Stars Give Further Insights on Planet Formation
August 16, 2012 — Astronomers propose that metals like magnesium might have an important role in the formation of low mass ... > full story -
Vaporizing Earth in Computer Simulations to Aid Search for Super-Earths
August 2, 2012 — Scientists have vaporized the Earth -- if only by simulation, that is mathematically and inside a computer. They weren't just practicing their evil overlord skills. By baking model Earths, they are ... > full story -
Orientation of Far-Off Multiplanet System Has Orientation Very Similar to Our Own Solar System
July 26, 2012 — Our solar system exhibits a remarkably orderly configuration: The eight planets orbit the sun much like runners on a track, circling in their respective lanes and always keeping within the same ... > full story -
Magma World: NASA'S Spitzer Finds Evidence for an Exoplanet Smaller Than Earth
July 18, 2012 — Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have detected what they believe is a planet two-thirds the size of Earth. The exoplanet candidate, called UCF-1.01, is located a mere 33 light-years ... > full storyMore: -
New Instrument Sifts Through Starlight to Reveal New Worlds
July 5, 2012 — An advanced telescope imaging system that started taking data last month is the first of its kind capable of spotting planets orbiting suns outside of our solar system. The collaborative set of ... > full story -
First-Ever Changes in an Exoplanet Atmosphere Detected
June 29, 2012 — Astronomers have using data made an unparalleled observation, detecting significant changes in the atmosphere of a planet located beyond our solar ... > full storyMore: -
New Planet-Weighing Technique Found
June 27, 2012 — Although there have been about 800 extra-solar planets discovered so far in our galaxy, the precise masses of the majority of them are still unknown, as the most-common planet-finding technique ... > full story
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