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Largest Transiting Extrasolar Planet Found Around A Distant Star
August 6, 2007 — Astronomers with the Transatlantic Exoplanet Survey just announced discovery of TrES-4, a new extrasolar planet in the constellation Hercules. According to the lead author, TrES-4 is the largest ... > full story -
Images Of Gases Escaping From Jupiter's Moon Io Produced
July 19, 2007 — The first clear evidence of how gases from Jupiter's tiny moon's volcanoes can lead to the largest visible gas cloud in the solar system has been announced. Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar ... > full story -
Giant Outer Extrasolar Planets Are Rare, Survey Suggests
July 11, 2007 — Astronomers who used powerful telescopes in Arizona and Chile in a survey for planets around nearby stars have discovered that extrasolar planets more massive than Jupiter are extremely rare in other ... > full story -
Computer Models Suggest Planetary And Extrasolar Planet Atmospheres
June 19, 2007 — The world is abuzz with the discovery of an extrasolar, Earthlike planet around the star Gliese 581 that is relatively close to our Earth at 20 light years away in the constellation Libra. Scientists ... > full story -
Supersized Planet Or Oasis In The 'Brown Dwarf Desert'?
May 30, 2007 — The latest find from an international planet-hunting team of amateur and professional astronomers is one of the oddest extrasolar planets ever cataloged -- a mammoth orb more than 13 times the mass ... > full story -
Astronomers Detect Shadow Of Water World In Front Of Nearby Star
May 16, 2007 — A team of European astronomers has measured the transit of a Neptune-sized planet around another star. For the first time, the size and density of such a small extra-solar planet has been measured, ... > full story -
NASA Finds Extremely Hot Planet, Makes First Exoplanet Weather Map
May 9, 2007 — Researchers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have learned what the weather is like on two distant, exotic worlds. One team of astronomers used the infrared telescope to map temperature variations ... > full story -
Cassini Finds That Storms Power Saturn's Jet Streams
May 8, 2007 — New Cassini research suggests eddies, or giant rotating storms, are the "engine" powering Saturn's jet stream winds. "The new information about how Saturn's jet streams are powered is exactly the ... > full story -
Pluto-Bound New Horizons Provides New Look At Jupiter System
May 1, 2007 — NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has provided new data on the Jupiter system -- stunning scientists with never-before-seen perspectives of the giant planet's atmosphere, rings, moons and ... > full story -
Radio Active Brown Dwarfs Are A New Class Of Pulsar
April 19, 2007 — A study of brown dwarfs has revealed that these "failed stars" can possess powerful magnetic fields and emit lighthouse beams of radio waves thousands of times brighter than any detected from the ... > full story
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