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TRAPPIST Participated in the Detection of Ten Percent of All Transiting Exoplanets Known to Date
Among the many planets
detected orbiting other
stars (exoplanets) over the
last twenty years, a little
less than three hundred
... > full story
Looking for Life by the Light of Dying Stars
Astronomers have now
demonstrated that with the
advanced technology
available in the next decade
we should be able to detect
biomarkers like oxygen and
... > full story
Three Super-Earth-Size Planets Found in 'Habitable Zone'
NASA's Kepler mission has
discovered two new planetary
systems that include three
super-Earth-size planets in
the "habitable zone," the
range of distance from a
... > full story
Can One Buy the Right to Name a Planet? A Response to Recent Name-Selling Campaigns
In the light of recent
events, where the
possibility of buying the
rights to name exoplanets
has been advertised, the
... > full story
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Astronomer Studies Far-Off Worlds Through 'Characterization by Proxy'
April 26, 2013 — An astronomer is using Earth's interstellar neighbors to learn the nature of certain stars too far away to be directly measured or observed, and the planets they may ... > full story -
Ghostly Green Bubble: Detailed Image of Planetary Nebula
April 10, 2013 — An intriguing new picture shows the glowing green planetary nebula IC 1295 surrounding a dim and dying star located about 3300 light-years away in the constellation of Scutum (The Shield). This is ... > full story -
Retired Star Found With Planets and Debris Disc
April 9, 2013 — The European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory has provided the first images of a dust belt -- produced by colliding comets or asteroids -- orbiting a subgiant star known to host a planetary ... > full story -
NASA Selects Explorer Investigations for Formulation
April 8, 2013 — NASA's Astrophysics Explorer Program has selected two missions for launch in 2017: a planet-hunting satellite and an International Space Station instrument to observe X-rays from ... > full story -
TESS Project Will Launch Telescopes to Perform Full-Sky Search for Transiting Exoplanets
April 8, 2013 — NASA has selected the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) project for a planned launch in 2017. The $200 million project will use an array of wide-field cameras to perform an all-sky ... > full story -
Dead Star Warps Light of Companion Red Star, Astronomers Say
April 5, 2013 — Astronomers have observed the effects of a dead star bending the light of its companion red star. The findings are among the first detections of this effect -- a result predicted by Einstein's theory ... > full story -
Astronomers Anticipate 100 Billion Earth-Like Planets
April 3, 2013 — Researchers have proposed a new method for finding Earth-like planets and they anticipate that the number will be in the order of 100 billion. The strategy uses a technique called gravitational ... > full story -
Distant Planetary System Is a Super-Sized Solar System
March 14, 2013 — Astronomers have made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere of a Jupiter-like planet beyond our Solar System. A spectrum reveals that the carbon to oxygen ratio is consistent with the ... > full story -
Earth-Sized Planets in Habitable Zones Are More Common Than Previously Thought
March 12, 2013 — The number of potentially habitable planets is greater than previously thought, according to a new analysis by a Penn State researcher, and some of those planets are likely lurking around nearby ... > full story -
Astronomers Conduct First Remote Reconnaissance of Another Planetary System
March 11, 2013 — Researchers have conducted a remote reconnaissance of a distant planetary system with a new telescope imaging system that sifts through the blinding light of stars. Using a suite of high-tech ... > full storyMore:
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