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Super-Earth' may be dead worldsLondon, UK (SPX) Mar 05, 2014 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, astronomers have found numerous worlds that at first sight have similarities with the Earth. A few of these are even in the 'habitable zone' where the temperature is just right for water to be in liquid form and so are prime targets in the search for life elsewhere in the universe. Now a team of scientis ... read more |
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 Feature: The "masters" behind China's lunar rover Jade Rabbit Bright pulses of light could make space veggies more nutritious Mars Rover Oppportunity Crushing Rocks With Wheels UNL Microgravity Team develops pill to be used to monitor astronauts' vitals Astronomers spot rare asteroid break-up Raytheon receives contract modification on JPSS Common Ground System | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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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 | .. |
 One planet, two stars: new research shows how circumbinary planets form Luke Skywalker's home planet Tatooine would have formed far from its current location in the Star Wars universe, a new University of Bristol study into its real world counterparts, observed by the K ... more |
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 First Weather Map of Brown Dwarf ESO's Very Large Telescope has been used to create the first ever map of the weather on the surface of the nearest brown dwarf to Earth. An international team has made a chart of the dark and light ... more | .. |
 NASA-Sponsored 'Disk Detective' Lets Public Search for New Planetary Nurseries NASA is inviting the public to help astronomers discover embryonic planetary systems hidden among data from the agency's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission through a new website, Dis ... more | .. |
Astronomers create first map of weather on nearby brown dwarf star Astronomers say they've used a telescope in Chile to create the first-ever map of the weather on the surface of the nearest brown dwarf star to Earth. ... more | .. |
 ALMA Discovers a Formation Site of a Giant Planetary System A team of Japanese astronomers has obtained a firm evidence of formation of a giant planetary system around a young star by the observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (AL ... more |
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 Herschel Telescope Detects Water on Dwarf Planet Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have made the first definitive detection of water vapor on the largest and roundest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres. Plumes of water vapor are thou ... more | .. |
 Bright star reveals new exoplanet By studying the star around which the planet revolves, they found that the star's rotation appears to be well-aligned with the planetary movement. The object can be well-studied because the star is ... more | .. |
 'Dwarf planet' in deep space has water Ceres, a tiny planet in the asteroid belt, spouts water vapour, a finding that strengthens theories that life on Earth was kickstarted by a bombardment of space rocks, scientists said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 First planet found around solar twin in star cluster Astronomers have used ESO's HARPS planet hunter in Chile, along with other telescopes around the world, to discover three planets orbiting stars in the cluster Messier 67. Although more than one tho ... more |
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 Powerful Planet Finder Turns Its Eye to the Sky After nearly a decade of development, construction, and testing, the world's most advanced instrument for directly imaging and analyzing planets around other stars is pointing skyward and collecting ... more | .. |
 SF State astronomers discover new planet in Pisces constellation A team led by SF State astronomer Stephen Kane has discovered a new giant planet located in a star system within the Pisces constellation. The planet, perhaps twice the mass of Jupiter, could help r ... more | .. |
 New kind of planet or failed star? Astrophysicists discover category-defying celestial object An object discovered by astrophysicists at the University of Toronto nearly 500 light years away from the sun may challenge traditional understandings about how planets and stars form. The obj ... more | .. |
 NASA's Kepler Provides Insights on Enigmatic Planets More than three-quarters of the planet candidates discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft have sizes ranging from that of Earth to that of Neptune, which is nearly four times as big as Earth. Such pl ... more |
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 Habitable zones around stars ten times wider than we thought Life on Earth-like planets can exist at least ten times farther away from their stars than previously thought, scientists found, putting in question our whole perspective on habitable zone distances ... more | .. |
Research: Smaller exoplanets found to be covered in gas U.S. researchers say they were surprised to find a number of exoplanets in the Milky Way that are only a few times bigger than Earth but covered in gas. ... more | .. |
 Planet-hunting telescope camera returns first images of exoplanets U.S. astronomers say the world's most powerful exoplanet-hunting camera has turned it eye to the skies and returned its first images. ... more | .. |
 NASA Kepler Provides Insight About Enigmatic But Ubiquitous Planets, Five New Rocky Planets More than three-quarters of the planet candidates discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft have sizes ranging from that of Earth to that of Neptune, which is nearly four times as big as Earth. Such pl ... more |
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