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New Study Of Solar System Speculates About Life On Other Planets
September 12, 2006 — A comprehensive review by leading scientists about our solar system which speculates on the possibility of life on other planets has been published. The book, co-authored by Dr Philippe Blondel, of ... > full story -
Hubble Captures A Rare Eclipse On Uranus
September 1, 2006 — A new Hubble Space Telescope image shows a never-before-seen astronomical alignment of a moon traversing the face of Uranus, and its accompanying shadow. The white dot near the center of Uranus' ... > full story -
A Sub-Stellar Jonah: Brown Dwarf Survives Being Swallowed
August 14, 2006 — Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered a rather unusual system, in which two planet-size stars, of different colors, orbit each other. One is a rather hot white dwarf, weighing ... > full story -
Baby 'Planemos' Can Be Born As Twins
August 4, 2006 — Astronomers are challenging an existing theoretical model and thrilling the astronomy community with their discovery of a seven-Jupiter-mass companion next to a planemo, or planetary mass object, ... > full story -
New Images Of Jupiter's Red Spots
August 3, 2006 — Astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii last month snapped high-resolution near-infrared images of the Great Red Spot, a persistent, ... > full story -
Models Show One Nearby Star System Could Host Earth-Like Planet
July 24, 2006 — Researchers running computer simulations for four nearby systems that contain giant planets about the size of Jupiter have found one that could have formed an Earth-like planet with the right ... > full story -
Three New 'Trojan' Asteroids Found Sharing Neptune's Orbit
June 15, 2006 — Three new objects locked into roughly the same orbit as Neptune--called "Trojan" asteroids--have been found by researchers from the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM) ... > full story -
Forming Super-Earths By Ultraviolet Stripping
June 7, 2006 — A new explanation for forming "super-Earths" suggests that they are more likely to be found orbiting red dwarf stars -- the most abundant type of star -- than gas giant planets like Jupiter and ... > full story -
New Study Suggests 'Planemos' May Spawn Planets And Moons
June 5, 2006 — Forget our traditional ideas of where a planetary system forms -- new research led by a University of Toronto astronomer reveals that planetary nurseries can exist not only around stars but also ... > full story -
Hubble Snaps Baby Pictures Of Jupiter's 'Red Spot Jr.'
May 4, 2006 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers their most detailed view yet of a second red spot emerging on Jupiter. For the first time in history, astronomers have witnessed the birth of a new ... > full story
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