Extrasolar Planet News

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'

Posted August 10, 2009:

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

Posted August 6, 2009:

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

Posted August 5, 2009:

• Seeing The Cosmos Through 'Warm' Infrared Eyes

Posted July 9, 2009:

• Galileo's Notebooks May Reveal Secrets Of New Planet

Posted July 1, 2009:

• Astronomers Discover Pair Of Solar Systems In The Making

Posted June 10, 2009:

• Planet-Forming Disk Discovered Orbiting Twin Suns
• Search For ET Just Got Easier: Effective Way To Search Atmospheres Of Planets For Signs Of Life
• New Definition Could Further Limit Habitable Zones Around Distant Suns

Posted June 1, 2009:

• Meteoroid Bombardment May Have Made Earth More Habitable, Says Study

Posted May 28, 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 7, 2009:

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

Posted April 30, 2009:

• NASA's Galaxy-Exploring Mission Celebrates Sixth Anniversary

Posted April 27, 2009:

• Missing Planets Attest To Destructive Power Of Stars' Tides

Posted April 21, 2009:

• Students Find Jupiter-Sized Oddball Planet
• Mass-Loss Leaves Close-in Exoplanets Exposed To The Core
• Lightest Exoplanet Yet Discovered

Posted April 19, 2009:

• Solar Systems Around Dead Suns?
• New Effort To Discover Habitable Earth-Like Planets Around Other Stars

Posted April 16, 2009:

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

Posted April 1, 2009:

• Hidden Exoplanet Found In Archival Data

Posted March 20, 2009:

• Finding Twin Earths Is Harder Than Thought

Posted February 3, 2009:

• COROT Discovers Smallest Transiting Exoplanet Ever

Posted January 28, 2009:

• Astronomers Get A Sizzling Weather Report From Distant Planet

Posted January 21, 2009:

• 'Super-Neptune' Exoplanet Discovered

Posted January 14, 2009:

• Exoplanet Atmospheres Detected From Earth

Posted January 11, 2009:

• Dead Stars Tell Story Of Planet Birth

Posted January 6, 2009:

• Brown Dwarfs Don't Hang Out With Stars

Posted January 5, 2009:

• Baby Jupiters Must Gain Weight Fast
• Jupiter-Like Planets Could Form Around Twin Suns

Posted December 22, 2008:

• Young Active Star Resembles The Sun When It Was Young

Posted December 20, 2008:

• Hubble Catches Jupiter's Largest Moon Going To The 'Dark Side'

Posted December 15, 2008:

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

Posted December 12, 2008:

• Hottest White Dwarf In Its Class

Posted December 11, 2008:

• Wobbly Planets Could Reveal Earth-Like Moons
• Astronomers Use Ultra-Sensitive Camera To Measure Size Of Planet Orbiting Star

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?

Posted November 18, 2008:

• New Planet Discovered Orbiting Dangerously Close To Giant Star

Posted November 13, 2008:

• First Direct Images Of A Planetary Family Around A Normal Star
• Hubble Directly Observes A Planet Orbiting Another Star

Posted November 12, 2008:

• Dusty Shock Waves Generate Planet Ingredients

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