Last Updated: Thursday, November 15, 2012, 09:06
A Lowell astronomer and her collaborators have identified 144 young targets for exoplanet searches, with 20 very strong candidates.
Last Updated: Friday, October 26, 2012, 16:00
New analysis of data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has provided support to the claim that the nearby star Fomalhaut hosts a massive exoplanet.
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 08:31
A planet with four suns has been identified by two astronomers.
Last Updated: Thursday, September 6, 2012, 13:33
Astronomers have discovered a new super-earth in the habitable zone around the red dwarf star Gliese 163.
Last Updated: Tuesday, August 28, 2012, 19:17
Data from NASA’s Kepler satellite has provided clear evidence that a faraway exoplanet is falling apart.
Last Updated: Sunday, August 19, 2012, 09:57
An international team of researchers has proposed that metals like magnesium might have an important role in the formation of low mass planets.
Last Updated: Thursday, July 19, 2012, 11:34
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have detected what they believe is a planet two-thirds the size of Earth.
Last Updated: Thursday, June 28, 2012, 10:59
A former Carnegie scientist has for the first time determined the mass of a non-transiting planet using a new technique that involves studying the carbon monoxide signature of the planet’s atmosphere.
Last Updated: Friday, May 25, 2012, 19:19
Venus will cross the face of the Sun on 5-6 June, a rare occurrence that will not be seen again for over a hundred years.
Last Updated: Thursday, March 1, 2012, 18:35
Alien planets would likely have a leap year too similar to the 366-day year that comes in every four years in our calender, scientists say.
Last Updated: Monday, January 16, 2012, 13:56
Astronomers may have spotted an exoplanet that ‘oozes’ supercritical liquid – thanks to NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 10, 2012, 19:07
Scientists have thrown light on how sunsets on exoplanets would look like.
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