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Astronomers discover planet that shouldn't be thereTucson AZ (SPX) Dec 10, 2013 An international team of astronomers, led by a University of Arizona graduate student, has discovered the most distantly orbiting planet found to date around a single, sun-like star. It is the first exoplanet - a planet outside of our solar system - discovered at the UA. Weighing in at 11 times Jupiter's mass and orbiting its star at 650 times the average Earth-Sun distance, planet HD 106906 b is unlike anything in our own Solar System and throws a wrench in planet formation theories. "This ... read more |
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 Scientist: Near-miss solar storm should be a wake-up call Feature of Earth's atmosphere may help in search for habitable planets Quails in orbit: French cuisine aims for the stars Minerals in giant impact crater may be clues to moon's makeup, origin Meteor rattles houses, brightens sky over Tucson 'Wake up' competition for Europe's sleepy comet-chaser | .. |
 Hubble Traces Subtle Signals of Water on Hazy Worlds Using the powerful eye of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, two teams of scientists have found faint signatures of water in the atmospheres of five distant planets. The presence of atmospheric water w ... more | .. |
 The State of Super Earths Our solar system hosts a cornucopia of worlds, from the hellfire of Venus to the frozen plains of Mars to the mighty winds of Uranus. In that range, the Earth stands alone, with no planet coming clo ... more | .. |
 Search for habitable planets should be more conservative Scientists should take the conservative approach when searching for habitable zones where life-sustaining planets might exist, according to James Kasting, Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Penn ... more | .. |
 NASA Kepler Results Usher in a New Era of Astronomy Scientists from around the world are gathered this week at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., for the second Kepler Science Conference, where they will discuss the latest findings ... more |
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 Astronomers answer key question: How common are habitable planets? Kepler spacecraft, now crippled and its four-year mission at an end, nevertheless provided enough data to complete its mission objective: to determine how many of the 100 billion stars in our galaxy ... more | .. |
 One in five Sun-like stars may have Earth-like planets As many as one in five Sun-like stars may have a planet the size of Earth, and the nearest could be in systems visible to the naked eye, US astronomers said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Mystery World Baffles Astronomers Kepler-78b is a planet that shouldn't exist. This scorching lava world circles its star every eight and a half hours at a distance of less than one million miles - one of the tightest known orbits. ... more | .. |
 Researchers discover that an exoplanet is Earth-like in mass and size In August, MIT researchers identified an exoplanet with an extremely brief orbital period: The team found that Kepler 78b, a small, intensely hot planet 400 light-years from Earth, circles its star ... more |
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'Hellish' exoplanet has Earth-like mass: research An Earth-sized planet far beyond our Solar System has been found to have a similar mass to our planet, said researchers Wednesday engaged in the hunt for other habitable worlds. ... more | .. |
 New planet found around distant star could be record-breaker The discovery of a seventh planet around a distant star makes it one the richest planetary systems yet discovered, European astronomers say. ... more | .. |
Planets rich in carbon could be poor in water, reducing life chances Planets rich in carbon - the main element in life - may lack the oceans of water necessary to kick-start life's creation, NASA-funded research suggests. ... more | .. |
 Carbon Worlds May be Waterless Planets rich in carbon, including so-called diamond planets, may lack oceans, according to NASA-funded theoretical research. Our sun is a carbon-poor star, and as result, our planet Earth is made up ... more |
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 Iowa research team see misaligned planets in distant system Using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system featuring multiple planets orbiting at a severe tilt to their host star. ... more | .. |
Count of discovered exoplanets passes the 1,000 mark The count of exoplanets circling distant stars has passed a benchmark figure, astronomers said, as the 1,000th was added to a European database Tuesday. ... more | .. |
Astronomer see misaligned planets in distant system data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system featuring multiple planets orbiting at a severe tilt to their host star. ... more | .. |
 Water discovered in remnants of extrasolar rocky world orbiting white dwarf Astrophysicists have found the first evidence of a water-rich rocky planetary body outside our solar system in its shattered remains orbiting a white dwarf. A new study by scientists at the Un ... more |
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 Scientists generate first map of clouds on an exoplanet On the exoplanet Kepler 7b, the weather is highly predictable, an international team of scientists has found: On any given day, the exoplanet, which orbits a star nearly 1,000 light-years from Earth ... more | .. |
 Space 'graveyard' reveals bits of an Earth-like planet Astronomers have autopsied a distant, broken apart planet and revealed signs of water and a rocky surface together for the first time, delighting scientists on the hunt for alien life. ... more | .. |
 Diamond 'super-earth' may not be quite as precious A planet 40 light years from our solar system, believed to be the first-ever discovered planet to consist largely of diamond, may in fact be of less exquisite nature, according to new research led b ... more | .. |
 Lonely planet without a star discovered wandering our galaxy An exotic young planet free-floating through the Milky Way galaxy rather than orbiting any star is practically a newborn in cosmic terms, astronomers say. ... more |
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 Researchers Find that Bright Nearby Double Star Fomalhaut Is Actually a Triple The nearby star system Fomalhaut - of special interest for its unusual exoplanet and dusty debris disk - has been discovered to be not just a double star, as astronomers had thought, but one of the ... more | .. |
NASA Space Telescopes Find Patchy Clouds On Exotic World Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes have created the first cloud map of a planet beyond our solar system, a sizzling, Jupiter-like world known as Kepler-7b. ... more | .. |
 Blurring the lines between stars and planets Astronomers including Niall Deacon of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) captured an image of an unusual free-floating planet. As the object has no host star, it can be observed and exami ... more | .. |
Nearby binary star system gets officially confirmed third member The nearby star system Fomalhaut, with its exoplanet and dusty debris disk, is not just a double star, it's an unusual triple star, a U.S astronomer reports. ... more |
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