Last Updated: Tuesday, May 14, 2013, 10:20
A team at Tel Aviv University and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) has just discovered an exoplanet using a new method that relies on Einstein`s special theory of relativity.
Last Updated: Sunday, April 28, 2013, 16:26
The closest known Earth-size alien planet beyond our solar system has a new unofficial name - Albertus Alauda - selected by popular choice in an online contest.
Last Updated: Saturday, April 20, 2013, 21:55
Two super-Earth planets, which had been discovered by NASA`s Kepler mission along with a new planetary system that is home to five small planets around a slightly smaller star than the Sun, may sustain life after all.
Last Updated: Friday, March 15, 2013, 16:17
A team of international scientists has made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere of a Jupiter-size like planet beyond our solar system.
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 12:57
Using a new high-tech gadget, astronomers have observed four planets orbiting a star relatively close to the sun in unprecedented detail, revealing the roughly ten-Jupiter-mass planets to be among the most exotic ones known.
Last Updated: Friday, March 1, 2013, 12:40
Astronomers have spotted what could be a giant planet in the formative stage, still embedded in a thick disc of gas and dust, with the help of European Southern Observatory (ESO) very large telescope (VLT).
Last Updated: Friday, February 8, 2013, 14:48
No evidence of transmitting aliens was reported when SETI astronomers completed their first "directed" search in an effort to search for intelligent extraterrestrials.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 9, 2013, 09:04
Researchers have discovered 15 new planet candidates orbiting in the habitable zones of other stars.
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 8, 2013, 12:50
At least 17 billion Earth-size planets may inhabit the Milky Way galaxy, RIA Novosti reported citing a new study by US astronomers.
Last Updated: Friday, December 14, 2012, 16:57
When Venus passed directly between the Earth and the Sun on 6 June 2012 in a so-called transit, a team of Italian astronomers used the opportunity to perform an unusual and challenging experiment.
Last Updated: Tuesday, December 11, 2012, 13:35
Seven planets in the Milky Way outside our solar system that could potentially harbour life have been discovered, researchers from an ambitious project to catalogue all habitable worlds claim.
Last Updated: Friday, November 30, 2012, 16:32
US Space agency NASA will decide by February next year whether smaller spacecraft TESS could be used for planet-hunting in the future.
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