A ‘Ying Yang’ binary system that can sustain Planetary Formation
A group from the Laboratory of Astrophysics of Bordeaux, France, and the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) has made a ...
Tag: exoplanet
Neptune-sized alien planet found to harbor water vapor in its atmosphere
Astronomers have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of a new exoplanet - a planet from outside our solar system ...
NASA reports the first Earth-sized Exoplanet in the Habitable Zone
Artist's rendition of Kepler-186f - just 10% larger than Earth. Remember a few days ago, when ...
First possible evidence of an exomoon
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Until just a few decades ago, there wasn't any proof that there were ...
First images from Gemini capture planets outside our solar system
The bright star Beta Pictoris is hidden behind a mask in the center of the images; ...
Newly found gassy exoplanet has mass similar to Earth’s
Artist impression of KOI-314c. Credit: C. Pulliam & D. Aguilar (CfA) A team of astronomers recently ...
New, more precise method to measure exoplanet mass
In the past two decades alone, some 900 exoplanets - planets outside our solar system - have been identified, with ...
Signs of water found in the atmosphere of 5 alien planets
Hot-Jupiter exoplanet illustration. (c) NASA Using the Hubble telescope, astronomers have identified faint signals of water ...
Most Earth-like exoplanet in terms of size and mass discovered
Illustration of a exoplanet transiting its parent star in the observational plane. (C) scienceoffice.org Although the ...
Kepler telescope malfunction might end search for alien planets
Dire news came today. Astronomers, and people dreaming of life beyond our solar system alike all over the world, are ...
Alien planet spotted using Einstein’s theory of relativity
Artist impression of Kepler-76b orbiting around its parent star. The planet was discovered after relativistic effects ...
Most promising Earth-like planets found by Kepler
An artist's impression of a sunrise on Kepler 62f. (c) American Association for the Advancement of ...
First remote reconnaissance of another solar systems reveals unlike “any other known object in our Universe”
Researchers have for the first time conducted a remote reconnaissance of a distant planetary system with a new telescope imaging ...
Alien life hunters hold white dwarf stars as safest bet
Though hundreds of potentially life harboring exoplanets have been discovered thus far, until the James Webb Space Telescope becomes operational, ...
Earth-like planets closer than previously thought. Nearest one might lie 13 light-years away
After researchers surveyed data from the Kepler mission tasked with identifying possibly habitable planets outside our solar system they found ...
Technique that allows mapping of distant worlds might allow us to find the next Earth
EPOXI mission image shows what an Earth-like exoplanet might look like from afar. (c) NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD/GSFC The ...
Super-earth planets might have a magnetic field from liquid metals
Of the hundreds of exoplanets discovered thus far, many of them are classed as super-Earths, planets with a mass up ...
New super-Earth exoplanet is a mere 46 light-years away
Astronomers have used a novel planet hunter instrument to detect a new possible life supporting, Earth-like exoplanet. In fact the ...
European Observatory (ESO) assembles 9 gigapixel image with 84 million stars
The European Southern Observatory has captured and analyzed an image of the center of our galaxy which, if printed at ...
New ESA planet-hunter space telescope slated for 2017
The European Space Agency has officially announced that it will launch a new space telescope tasked with the primary objective ...