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New Method of Finding Planets Scores its First DiscoveryCambridge, MA (SPX) May 16, 2013 Detecting alien worlds presents a significant challenge since they are small, faint, and close to their stars. The two most prolific techniques for finding exoplanets are radial velocity (looking for wobbling stars) and transits (looking for dimming stars). A team at Tel Aviv University and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) has just discovered an exoplanet using a new method that relies on Einstein's special theory of relativity. "We are looking for very subtle effects. We need ... read more |
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 STRATCOM strives to build coalitions for space operations Planning Accelerates For Pluto Encounter Mars Rover Opportunity Examines Clay Clues in Rock Raytheon's newest Standard Missile-3 takes out complex, separating short-range ballistic missile target ATK Hoping Tp Clean Up Rocketscience Three Planets Converge In Western Twilight May 25-28 | .. |
 Team Takes Part in Discovering New Planet For the past two years, Professor Tsevi Mazeh and his PhD student, Simchon Faigler, from the School of Physics and Astronomy at TAU, have been searching for planets around other stars using a novel ... more | .. |
 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Finds Dead Stars Polluted with Planet Debris NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found the building blocks for Earth-sized planets in an unlikely place-- the atmospheres of a pair of burned-out stars called white dwarfs. These dead stars a ... more | .. |
 The Great Exoplanet Debate At the 2012 Astrobiology Science Conference, Astrobiology Magazine hosted a plenary session titled: "Expanding the Habitable Zone: The Hunt for Exoplanets Now and Into the Future." Originally formul ... more | .. |
 NASA's Spitzer Puts Planets in a Petri Dish Our galaxy is teeming with a wild variety of planets. In addition to our solar system's eight near-and-dear planets, there are more than 800 so-called exoplanets known to circle stars beyond our sun ... more |
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 Two New Exoplanets Detected with Kepler, SOPHIE and HARPS-N An international team of astronomers, including Alexandre Santerne of the EXOEarths team at CAUP, has identified and characterized two new exoplanets thanks to combined observations from the Kepler ... more | .. |
 Astronomer studies far-off worlds through 'characterization by proxy' A University of Washington 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 host. ... more | .. |
 Star-and Planet-Forming Regions May Hold Key to Life's Chirality Life on Earth is made of left-handed amino acids (L-amino acids). The question of why organisms on Earth consist of L-amino acids instead of D-amino acids or consist of D-sugar instead of L-sugar is ... more | .. |
 Mysterious Hot Spots Observed In A Cool Red Supergiant Astronomers have released a new image of the outer atmosphere of Betelgeuse - one of the nearest red supergiants to Earth - revealing the detailed structure of the matter being thrown off the star ... more |
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 Orbital Selected By NASA for TESS Astrophysics Satellite Orbital Sciences has been selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to design, manufacture, integrate and test a new astrophysics satellite that will perform a full-sky se ... more | .. |
 Kepler Discovers Its Smallest Habitable Zone Planets 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 star where the surface temperature of ... more | .. |
 Kepler Discovers its Smallest Habitable Zone Planets 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 star where the surface temperature of ... more | .. |
 Notre Dame astrophysicist discovers 5-planet system like Earth Researchers for the first time have identified Earth-sized planets within the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Images of the star taken by Notre Dame astrophysicist Justin Crepp rule out alternati ... more |
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 New Techniques Allow Discovery Of Smallest Super-Earth Exoplanets A University of Washington astronomer, funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, has discovered perhaps the smallest super-Earth planet in its ho ... more | .. |
 Kepler Finds Two Water Worlds 1200 Lights Years Away In our solar system, only one planet is blessed with an ocean: Earth. Our home world is a rare, blue jewel compared to the deserts of Mercury, Venus and Mars. But what if our Sun had not one but two ... more | .. |
 Five-Planet System With Most Earth-Like Exoplanet Yet Found A University of Washington astronomer has discovered perhaps the most Earth-like planet yet found outside the solar system by the Kepler Space Telescope. Eric Agol, a UW associate professor of astro ... more | .. |
Astronomers find most Earth-like planets yet Using a potent NASA space telescope to scan the skies for planets like ours where life might exist, astronomers said Thursday they have found the most Earth-like candidates yet. ... more |
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 Can One Buy the Right to Name a Planet? In the light of recent events, where the possibility of buying the rights to name exoplanets has been advertised, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) wishes to inform the public that such sch ... more | .. |
 Retired Star Found With Planets And Debris Disc ESA'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 system. After bil ... more | .. |
 The Great Exoplanet Debate At the 2012 Astrobiology Science Conference, Astrobiology Magazine hosted a plenary session titled: "Expanding the Habitable Zone: The Hunt for Exoplanets Now and Into the Future." Originally formul ... more | .. |
 NASA Selects Explorer Investigations for Formulation 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 stars. The Tr ... more |
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 The Great Exoplanet Debate Part Four At the 2012 Astrobiology Science Conference, Astrobiology Magazine hosted a plenary session titled: "Expanding the Habitable Zone: The Hunt for Exoplanets Now and Into the Future." ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Anticipate 100 Billion Earth-Like Planets Researchers at The University of Auckland 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 ... more | .. |
 The Great Exoplanet Debate At the 2012 Astrobiology Science Conference, Astrobiology Magazine hosted a plenary session titled: "Expanding the Habitable Zone: The Hunt for Exoplanets Now and Into the Future." Originally formul ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Detect Water in Atmosphere of Distant Planet A team of international scientists using the W. M. Keck Observatory has made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere of a Jupiter-size planet beyond our Solar System. According to ... more |
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