Extrasolar Planet News

Posted April 26, 2008:

• Plan To Identify Watery Earth-like Planets Develops

Posted April 17, 2008:

• Drifting Star Discovered: Implications For Star And Planet Formation Theory

Posted April 10, 2008:

• Coldest Brown Dwarf Ever Observed: Closing The Gap Between Stars And Planets
• New Rocky Planet Found In Constellation Leo

Posted April 4, 2008:

• Newborn Brown Dwarfs Stir Up The Neighborhood

Posted April 3, 2008:

• Chance Of Finding Earthlike Planets On The Rise, UK Astronomers Believe

Posted April 2, 2008:

• Youngest Planet Ever Discovered Offers Unique View Of Planet Formation

Posted April 1, 2008:

• Ten Exotic Planets Outside Our Solar System Discovered With New Technique

Posted March 26, 2008:

• Planet in Progress? Evidence Of A Huge Planet Forming In Star System

Posted March 19, 2008:

• Hubble Finds First Organic Molecule On Extrasolar Planet

Posted March 7, 2008:

• Alpha Centauri Should Harbor Detectable, Earth-like Planets

Posted February 27, 2008:

• Did A Mega-collision Alter Venus?

Posted February 15, 2008:

• Jupiter-Saturn-like Planets Discovered In Faraway Solar System Like Our Own

Posted January 17, 2008:

• When Worlds Collide: Have Astronomers Observed The Aftermath Of A Distant Planetary Collision?

Posted January 3, 2008:

• COROT Surprises A Year After Launch
• Red Dust In Planet-forming Disk May Harbor Precursors To Life

Posted December 28, 2007:

• Exoplanet Reflected Light Detected For The First Time

Posted December 16, 2007:

• Deep Impact Spacecraft Heads For Comet Hartley 2

Posted December 14, 2007:

• Gliese 581: Extrasolar Planet Might Indeed Be Habitable

Posted December 12, 2007:

• Hazy Red Sunset On Extrasolar Planet

Posted December 7, 2007:

• Really Big Planets: When Do Gas Giants Reach The Point Of No Return?

Posted November 6, 2007:

• Astronomers Discover Record Fifth Planet Around Nearby Star 55 Cancri

Posted November 5, 2007:

• Three New Exo-planets Discovered

Posted October 4, 2007:

• Earth-like Planet Forming In Nearby Star System, Astronomers Believe

Posted October 2, 2007:

• Sign Of 'Embryonic Planets' Forming In Nearby Stellar Systems

Posted September 27, 2007:

• Oldest Planet Yet Discovered Hints Earth May Survive Our Sun Becoming A Red Giant

Posted September 25, 2007:

• Cornucopia Of Earth-sized Planets Modeled By NASA

Posted September 14, 2007:

• Exoplanet Offers Clues To Earth's Future

Posted August 17, 2007:

• Polluted Dead Star Indicates Planets Like Earth May Have Formed Around Other Stars

Posted August 16, 2007:

• Speeding Star: Johnny Appleseed Of The Cosmos

Posted August 6, 2007:

• Largest Transiting Extrasolar Planet Found Around A Distant Star

Posted August 3, 2007:

• Planet Orbiting A Giant Red Star Discovered With Hobby-Eberly Telescope

Posted July 16, 2007:

• Diamonds Unlikely In Gas Giants Like Uranus

Posted July 13, 2007:

• Giant Outer Extrasolar Planets Are Rare, Survey Suggests

Posted July 10, 2007:

• NASA's Stardust And Deep Impact Will Observe More Comets And Extrasolar Planets
• Stellar Tiramisu: Astronomers Find Hints of Distant Planetary Pollution

Posted June 22, 2007:

• Detecting Extra-solar Planets Now Easier With New ESO Imaging Spectrograph

Posted June 21, 2007:

• Computer Models Suggest Planetary And Extrasolar Planet Atmospheres

Posted June 20, 2007:

• Plant Life On Extrasolar Earthlike Planets Could Be Black

Posted June 14, 2007:

• Hidden Planet Pushes Star's Ring A Billion Miles Off-center

Posted June 9, 2007:

• Boring Star May Mean Livelier Planet, Astronomer Says

Posted May 31, 2007:

• Massive Transiting Planet With 31-hour Year Found Around Distant Star
• Supersized Planet Or Oasis In The 'Brown Dwarf Desert'?

Posted May 29, 2007:

• Astronomers Discover 28 New Exoplanets And Four Multi-Planet Systems

Posted May 16, 2007:

• Astronomers Detect Shadow Of Water World In Front Of Nearby Star

Posted May 11, 2007:

• Mission Could Seek Out Spock's Home Planet

Posted May 9, 2007:

• NASA Finds Extremely Hot Planet, Makes First Exoplanet Weather Map

Posted May 4, 2007:

• COROT Discovers Its First Exoplanet And Catches Scientists By Surprise

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