Extrasolar Planet News

Posted July 15, 2010:

• Super-Hot Planet With Unique Comet-Like Tail Discovered

Posted July 8, 2010:

• Prospects for Finding New Earths Boosted by Brand New Planet-Finding Technique

Posted June 29, 2010:

• More Proof That New Planet and Star Are Moving Together

Posted June 24, 2010:

• Earth-Like Planets May Be Ready for Their Close-Up

Posted June 23, 2010:

• First Superstorm on Exoplanet Detected

Posted June 21, 2010:

• Six New Planets Discovered

Posted June 15, 2010:

• NASA Releases Kepler Data On Potential Extrasolar Planets

Posted June 10, 2010:

• Exoplanet Caught on the Move

Posted June 8, 2010:

• TRAPPIST Telescope to Scout the Sky and Uncover Exoplanets and Comets

Posted June 7, 2010:

• Earth and Moon Formed Later Than Previously Thought, New Research Suggests

Posted May 24, 2010:

• Weird Orbits of Neighbors Can Make 'Habitable' Planets Not So Habitable

Posted May 21, 2010:

• Hubble Finds a Star Eating a Planet

Posted April 21, 2010:

• 'This Planet Tastes Funny,' According to Spitzer Space Telescope

Posted April 13, 2010:

• Turning Planetary Theory Upside Down: Nine New Exoplanets Found, Some With Retrograde Orbits

Posted April 9, 2010:

• Planet-Like Object Found Circling a Brown Dwarf

Posted March 17, 2010:

• First Temperate Exoplanet -- Size of Jupiter -- Discovered

Posted March 2, 2010:

• How to Hunt for Exoplanets

Posted February 24, 2010:

• Torn Apart by Its Own Tides, Massive Planet Is on a 'Death March'

Posted February 18, 2010:

• Youngest Extra-Solar Planet Discovered Around Solar-Type Star

Posted February 15, 2010:

• Listening to Other Stars

Posted February 3, 2010:

• Probing Exoplanets from the Ground: A Little Telescope Goes a Long Way

Posted January 13, 2010:

• Second Smallest Exoplanet Spotted: Discovery Highlights New Potential for Eventually Finding Earth-Mass Planets
• Astronomers Capture First Direct Spectrum of an Exoplanet

Posted January 7, 2010:

• How Earth Survived Its Birth: New Simulation Reveals Planet Migration Prevents Plunge Into Sun

Posted January 6, 2010:

• Most Earth-Like Exoplanet Ever Found Started out as a Gas Giant
• First Earth-Like Planet Spotted Outside Solar System Likely a Volcanic Wasteland

Posted January 5, 2010:

• Sun Glints Seen from Space Signal Oceans and Lakes
• In All the Universe, Just 15 Percent of Solar Systems Are Like Ours

Posted January 4, 2010:

• Five New Exoplanets Discovered By NASA's Kepler Space Telescope

Posted December 23, 2009:

• Keck Telescopes Gaze Into Young Star's 'Life Zone'

Posted December 22, 2009:

• Brown Dwarf Pair Mystifies Astronomers

Posted December 17, 2009:

• Avatar's Moon Pandora Could Be Real, Planet-Hunters Say

Posted December 16, 2009:

• Astronomers Find Super-Earth Orbiting Red Dwarf Star; May Have Atmosphere

Posted December 14, 2009:

• First Super-Earths Discovered Orbiting Sun-Like Stars

Posted December 10, 2009:

• First Known Binary Star Is Discovered to Be a Triplet, Quadruplet, Quintuplet, Sextuplet System

Posted December 3, 2009:

• First Direct Observation of a Planet-Like Object Orbiting Star Similar to Sun

Posted November 11, 2009:

• Exoplanets Clue To Sun's Curious Chemistry

Posted November 8, 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 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 September 30, 2009:

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

Posted September 28, 2009:

• Sea Level Stargazing: Astronomers Make Key Sighting With Florida Telescope

Posted September 23, 2009:

• NASA's Spitzer Spots Clump Of Swirling Planetary Material

Posted September 18, 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 27, 2009:

• Huge New Planet Orbits 'Wrong' Way Around Star; Tells Of Game Of Planetary Billiards
• Extrasolar Hot Jupiter: The Planet That 'Shouldn’t Exist'

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