Extrasolar Planet News

Posted November 9, 2009:

• Unsettled Youth: Spitzer Observes A Chaotic Planetary System

Posted November 6, 2009:

• The CoRoT Satellite : 3 More Years To Hunt For Planets And To Listen To The Music Of Stars

Posted October 24, 2009:

• Galileo's Notebooks May Reveal Secrets Of New Planet

Posted October 21, 2009:

• Astronomers Find Organic Molecules Around Gas Planet

Posted October 19, 2009:

• Towards Other Earths: 32 New Exoplanets Found

Posted October 6, 2009:

• Dirty Stars Make Good Solar System Hosts

Posted October 1, 2009:

• Raining Pebbles: Rocky Exoplanet Has Bizarre Atmosphere, Simulation Suggests

Posted September 24, 2009:

• NASA's Spitzer Spots Clump Of Swirling Planetary Material

Posted September 21, 2009:

• Exotic Life Beyond Life? Looking For Life As We Don't Know It

Posted September 16, 2009:

• First Solid Evidence For A Rocky Exoplanet: Mass And Density Of Smallest Exoplanet Finally Measured

Posted September 3, 2009:

• Will Kepler Find Habitable Moons?

Posted August 28, 2009:

• Huge New Planet Orbits 'Wrong' Way Around Star; Tells Of Game Of Planetary Billiards

Posted August 27, 2009:

• Extrasolar Hot Jupiter: The Planet That 'Shouldn’t Exist'

Posted August 20, 2009:

• Seeing The Cosmos Through 'Warm' Infrared Eyes

Posted August 13, 2009:

• Violent Youth Of Solar Proxies Steers Course Of Genesis Of Life

Posted August 7, 2009:

• New Planet-finder Shows Its Power: Kepler Orbiting Telescope Should Soon Find Alien Earths

Posted July 2, 2009:

• Astronomers Discover Pair Of Solar Systems In The Making

Posted June 12, 2009:

• Search For ET Just Got Easier: Effective Way To Search Atmospheres Of Planets For Signs Of Life

Posted June 11, 2009:

• Planet-forming Disk Discovered Orbiting Twin Suns
• New Definition Could Further Limit Habitable Zones Around Distant Suns

Posted May 29, 2009:

• Planet-Hunting Method Succeeds: Jupiter-like Planet Found Orbiting One Of Smallest Stars

Posted May 26, 2009:

• New Technique Could Find Water On Earth-like Planets Orbiting Distant Suns

Posted May 12, 2009:

• New Way Of Reading Light With Help Locate Earth-like Planets Around Other Stars

Posted May 3, 2009:

• Missing Planets Attest To Destructive Power Of Stars' Tides

Posted April 27, 2009:

• Mass-loss Leaves Close-in Exoplanets Exposed To The Core

Posted April 26, 2009:

• New Effort To Discover Habitable Earth-like Planets Around Other Stars

Posted April 22, 2009:

• Students Find Jupiter-sized Oddball Planet

Posted April 21, 2009:

• Lightest Exoplanet Yet Discovered

Posted April 20, 2009:

• Solar Systems Around Dead Suns?

Posted April 17, 2009:

• NASA's Kepler Captures First Views Of Planet-Hunting Territory

Posted April 2, 2009:

• Hidden Exoplanet Found In Archival Data

Posted March 21, 2009:

• Finding Twin Earths Is Harder Than Thought

Posted February 4, 2009:

• COROT Discovers Smallest Transiting Exoplanet Ever

Posted January 29, 2009:

• Astronomers Get A Sizzling Weather Report From Distant Planet

Posted January 22, 2009:

• 'Super-Neptune' Exoplanet Discovered

Posted January 15, 2009:

• Exoplanet Atmospheres Detected From Earth

Posted January 12, 2009:

• Dead Stars Tell Story Of Planet Birth

Posted January 11, 2009:

• Baby Jupiters Must Gain Weight Fast

Posted January 9, 2009:

• Brown Dwarfs Don't Hang Out With Stars
• Jupiter-like Planets Could Form Around Twin Suns

Posted December 23, 2008:

• Young Active Star Resembles The Sun When It Was Young

Posted December 17, 2008:

• Astronomers Use Ultra-sensitive Camera To Measure Size Of Planet Orbiting Star

Posted December 16, 2008:

• Ocean-bearing Planets: Looking For Extraterrestrial Life In All The Right Places

Posted December 15, 2008:

• Hottest White Dwarf In Its Class

Posted December 13, 2008:

• Wobbly Planets Could Reveal Earth-like Moons

Posted December 9, 2008:

• Hubble Telescope Finds Carbon Dioxide On An Extrasolar Planet

Posted December 4, 2008:

• Unique Extrasolar Planet Orbits Fast-rotating Hot Star

Posted November 21, 2008:

• Beta Pictoris Planet Finally Imaged?

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