Extrasolar Planet News

Posted September 18, 2008:

• Fifth Dwarf Planet Named Haumea

Posted September 15, 2008:

• First Picture Of Likely Planet Around Sun-Like Star

Posted September 8, 2008:

• Presence Of Planets In Young Gas Discs Hinted At Using Clever New Astronomical Method

Posted September 4, 2008:

• A Fine-Tooth Comb To Measure The Accelerating Universe

Posted August 7, 2008:

• Solar System Is Pretty Special, According To New Computer Simulation

Posted July 25, 2008:

• Exoplanet Orbiting Sun-Like Star Discovered

Posted July 18, 2008:

• NASA's Deep Impact Films Earth As An Alien World

Posted June 27, 2008:

• Cluster Satellites Listen To The Sounds Of Earth

Posted June 16, 2008:

• Trio Of Super-Earths: Harvest Of Low-Mass Exoplanets Discovered With HARPS

Posted June 4, 2008:

• Hunt For Superearth Planets Underway

Posted June 2, 2008:

• Small Planet Discovered Orbiting Small Star

Posted May 19, 2008:

• The Mouse That Roared: Pipsqueak Star Unleashes Monster Flare

Posted April 24, 2008:

• Plan To Identify Watery Earth-Like Planets Develops

Posted April 15, 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

Posted April 9, 2008:

• New Rocky Planet Found In Constellation Leo

Posted April 2, 2008:

• Chance Of Finding Earthlike Planets On The Rise, UK Astronomers Believe
• Youngest Planet Ever Discovered Offers Unique View Of Planet Formation

Posted April 1, 2008:

• Newborn Brown Dwarfs Stir Up The Neighborhood
• 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 14, 2008:

• Winking Star: First Step Of Earth-Like Planet Formation Observed

Posted March 10, 2008:

• Finally, The 'Planet' In Planetary Nebulae?

Posted March 7, 2008:

• Alpha Centauri Should Harbor Detectable, Earth-Like Planets

Posted February 26, 2008:

• Did A Mega-Collision Alter Venus?

Posted February 25, 2008:

• Sun-Like Star Flips Its Magnetic Field Like Our Sun: First Observation

Posted February 14, 2008:

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

Posted January 12, 2008:

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

Posted January 11, 2008:

• Circumstellar Dust Takes Flight In 'The Moth'

Posted January 9, 2008:

• Two Unusual Older Stars Giving Birth To Second Wave Of Planets

Posted January 3, 2008:

• Red Dust In Planet-Forming Disk May Harbor Precursors To Life

Posted December 26, 2007:

• Exoplanet Reflected Light Detected For The First Time

Posted December 20, 2007:

• COROT Surprises A Year After Launch

Posted December 15, 2007:

• Deep Impact Spacecraft Heads For Comet Hartley 2

Posted December 13, 2007:

• Gliese 581: Extrasolar Planet Might Indeed Be Habitable

Posted December 11, 2007:

• Solving Solar System Quandaries Is Simple: Just Flip-Flop The Position Of Uranus And Neptune
• Hazy Red Sunset On Extrasolar Planet

Posted December 5, 2007:

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

Posted November 29, 2007:

• Astronomers Find Stellar Cradle Where Planets Form

Posted November 21, 2007:

• Astronomers Observe Acidic Milky Way Galaxies

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 3, 2007:

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

Posted October 1, 2007:

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

Posted September 24, 2007:

• Cornucopia Of Earth-Sized Planets Modeled By NASA

Posted September 23, 2007:

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

Posted September 12, 2007:

• Exoplanet Offers Clues To Earth's Future

Posted August 16, 2007:

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

Posted August 15, 2007:

• Speeding Star: Johnny Appleseed Of The Cosmos

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