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Odd Tilts Could Make More Worlds HabitableGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 19, 2014 Pivoting planets that lean one way and then change orientation within a short geological time period might be surprisingly habitable, according to new modeling by NASA and university scientists affiliated with the NASA Astrobiology Institute. The climate effects generated on these wobbling worlds could prevent them from turning into glacier-covered ice lockers, even if those planets are somewhat far from their stars. And with some water remaining liquid on the surface long-term, such planets could ... read more |
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 Upside-down planet reveals new method for studying binary star systems 45th Space Wing supports third SpaceX Launch for ISS Resupply mission China issues first assessment on space activities Robonaut from the ISS gets new legs for Easter Exoplanets Soon to Gleam in the Eye of NESSI Russia to Test Launch New Angara Rocket June 25 | .. |
 Faraway Moon or Faint Star? Possible Exomoon Found Titan, Europa, Io and Phobos are just a few members of our solar system's pantheon of moons. Are there are other moons out there, orbiting planets beyond our sun? NASA-funded researchers have ... more | .. |
 Orbital physics is child's play with 'Super Planet Crash' Super Planet Crash is a pretty simple game: players build their own planetary system, putting planets into orbit around a star and racking up points until they add a planet that destabilizes the who ... more | .. |
 The Importance of Planetary Plumes The Hubble Space Telescope is famous for finding black holes. It can pick out thousands of galaxies in a patch of sky the size of a thumbprint. The most powerful space telescope ever built, the Hubb ... more | .. |
 Lick's Automated Planet Finder: First robotic telescope for planet hunters Lick Observatory's newest telescope, the Automated Planet Finder (APF), has been operating robotically night after night on Mt. Hamilton since January, searching nearby stars for Earth-sized planets ... more |
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 Space Sunflower May Help Snap Pictures of Planets A spacecraft that looks like a giant sunflower might one day be used to acquire images of Earth-like rocky planets around nearby stars. The prototype deployable structure, called a starshade, is bei ... more | .. |
 NRL Researchers Detect Water Around a Hot Jupiter Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are part of a research team that has detected water vapor in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system. The team, including scientist ... more | .. |
 UK joins the planet hunt with Europe's PLATO mission The UK is set to play a leading role in the search for habitable planets orbiting alien stars, following David Willett's announcement 11 March 2014 that the UK Space Agency will invest 25 million po ... more | .. |
 X-ray laser FLASH spies deep into giant gas planets Using DESY's X-ray laser FLASH, researchers took a sneak peek deep into the lower atmospheric layers of giant gas planets such as Jupiter or Saturn. The observations of the team around lead author D ... more |
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 Crashing Comets Explain Surprise Gas Clump Around Young Star Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope in northern Chile have today announced the discovery of an unexpected clump of carbon monoxide gas in the dusty di ... more | .. |
 A small step toward discovering habitable earths University of Arizona researchers snapped images of a planet outside our solar system with an Earth-based telescope using essentially the same type of imaging sensor found in digital cameras instead ... more | .. |
 Every red dwarf star has at least one planet Three new planets classified as habitable-zone super-Earths are amongst eight new planets discovered orbiting nearby red dwarf stars by an international team of astronomers from the UK and Chile. Th ... more | .. |
 Galactic gas caused by colliding comets suggests mystery 'shepherd' exoplanet Astronomers exploring the disk of debris around the young star Beta Pictoris have discovered a compact cloud of carbon monoxide located about 8 billion miles (13 billion kilometers) from the star. T ... more |
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 'Dimer molecules' aid study of exoplanet pressure, hunt for life Astronomers at the University of Washington have developed a new method of gauging the atmospheric pressure of exoplanets, or worlds beyond the solar system, by looking for a certain type of molecul ... more | .. |
 Super-Earth' may be dead worlds In the last 20 years the search for Earth-like planets around other stars has accelerated, with the launch of missions like the Kepler space telescope. Using these and observatories on the ground, a ... more | .. |
 What Would A Rocky Exoplanet Look Like? Atmosphere Models Seek Clues When a distant planet appears as a point of light in a telescope, it's hard to imagine what things are like at the surface. Does rain fall? Is the atmosphere thick, or dissipating into space? How co ... more | .. |
 Kepler Mission Announces a Planet Bonanza, 715 New Worlds NASA's Kepler mission announced Wednesday the discovery of 715 new planets. These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much like our own solar system. Nearl ... more |
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 Water is Detected in a Planet Outside Our Solar System Water has been detected in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system with a new technique that could help researchers to learn how many planets with water, like Earth, exist throughout the ... more | .. |
 NASA cries planetary 'bonanza' with 715 new worlds NASA on Wednesday announced a torrent of new planet discoveries, hailing a "bonanza" of 715 worlds now known outside the solar system thanks to the Kepler space telescope's planet-hunting mission. ... more | .. |
Detection of Water Vapor in the Atmosphere of a Hot Jupiter Although liquid water covers a majority of Earth's surface, scientists are still searching for planets outside of our solar system that contain water. Researchers at Caltech and several other instit ... more | .. |
ESA selects planet-hunting PLATO mission A space-based observatory to search for planets orbiting alien stars has been selected as ESA's third medium-class science mission. It is planned for launch by 2024. The PLATO - Planetary Transits a ... more |
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 Rife with hype, exoplanet study needs patience and refinement Imagine someone spent months researching new cities to call home using low-resolution images of unidentified skylines. The pictures were taken from several miles away with a camera intended for port ... more | .. |
Europe sets plans for 2024 planet-hunting mission Europe on Wednesday unveiled plans to launch a major space observatory in 2024 aimed at finding planets orbiting other stars, one of the new frontiers of astronomy. ... more | .. |
Scientist: Exoplanet research needs less hype, more patience The search for exoplanets and alien life is generating a lot of hype but the study needs patience and refinement, a U.S. review of exoplanet research suggests. ... more | .. |
 Kepler Finds a Very Wobbly Planet Imagine living on a planet with seasons so erratic you would hardly know whether to wear Bermuda shorts or a heavy overcoat. That is the situation on a weird, wobbly world found by NASA's planet-hun ... more |
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