Citizen scientists join the exoplanet hunt
Scientific American (blog) - John Matson - 1 day ago
Those data are automatically filtered to locate possible planetary transits—at last count, the spacecraft had located eight exoplanets and several hundred ...Other Worlds - Little India
Learning from hot Jupiters - PhysOrg.com
Building a list of Earth candidates - MIT News
Examiner.com - Astrobiology News (press release)
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First Four Exoplanet System Imaged
Universe Today - Jon Voisey - 5 days ago
Among one of the first exoplanet systems imaged was HR 8799. In 2008, a team led by Christian Marois at the Herzberg ...Exoplanet find challenges theories of planet formation - Wired.co.uk
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The final frontier
MIT News - Morgan Bettex - 2 days ago
This three-part series explores MIT researchers' roles in the quest to find an Earth twin and the effort to make sense of the 500 exoplanets that have been ...Indian finds new breed of exoplanet
Hindustan Times - 9 Dec 2010
"The researchers found that the carbon-to-oxygen ratio of WASP-12b, an exoplanet... about 1.4 times the mass of Jupiter and located about 1200 light years awayAstronomers find first carbon-rich exoplanet - Brahmand Defence and Aerospace News
Astronomers unlock new secrets of exoplanets - Deutsche Welle
Exoplanets of the Week: A “Diamond Planet” and Gas Giant Quadruplets - Discover Magazine (blog)
msnbc.com - TIME (blog)
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Victoria scientist leads discovery of new exoplanet
Vancouver Sun - Margaret Munro - 9 Dec 2010
More than 500 exoplanets -- planets outside our solar system -- have been found since the 1990s, but their existence has mainly been inferred by studying ...Exoplanets cast doubt on astronomical theories - Nature.com
Astronomers discover new planet in planetary system similar to our own - Sify
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Planetary science: A cloudy view of exoplanets
Nature.com - 1 Dec 2010
The lack of absorption features in the transmission spectrum of exoplanet GJ 1214b rules out a hydrogen-rich atmosphere for the planet. ...First super-Earth atmosphere analysed: study - AFP
Steamy alien planet reveals atmosphere of giant "super-Earth" for ... - io9
Full steam ahead on planet GJ1214b - Irish Times
BBC News - physicsworld.com
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Planetary Family Portrait Reveals Another Exoplanet
Space Daily - 3 days ago
Travis Barman, a Lowell Observatory exoplanet theorist and study co-author stated images like these bring the exoplanet field, which studies planets outside ...
Qatar-led international team finds their first alien world
Kipp Report - 1 day ago
This 'hot Jupiter', now named Qatar-1b, adds to the growing list of alien planets orbiting distant stars, or exoplanets. In an exciting example of ...Students play key role in new planet discovery - Media Newswire (press release)
all 2 news articles »Forests might be detectable on extrasolar planets
io9 - 11 Dec 2010
While previous studies have discussed the likelihood of detecting life on exoplanets through signs of biogenic gases in the atmosphere, or seeing "glints" ...Can Nearby Binary Star Systems Mimic Planets?
Universe Today - Jon Voisey - 23 hours ago
The vast majority of the known exoplanets have been discovered by the radial velocity method. ...
How One Astronomer Became the Unofficial Exoplanet Record Keeper
Scientific American - John Matson - 29 Nov 2010
A RARE FIND: Hundreds of exoplanets have now been discovered and catalogued, but the planets orbiting the star HR 8799 ...
Qatar Discovers New Planet Named Qatar-1b
Bernama - 2 days ago
Khalid, leader of the Qatar exoplanet survey and a research director at Qatar ...exoplanet survey, ... Building on UK technology developed for the SuperWASPBritish students help identify new planet outside the Solar System - Metro
Scots stargazers' find giant planet roasting at 1100C - Scotsman
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Large Binocular Telescope Achieves First Light
Universe Today - Jon Voisey - 7 Dec 2010
Right: First light image taken by the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer, which can search for dust and large exoplanets around nearby stars. ...Double Vision: New Instrument Casts Its Eyes to the Sky - Space Fellowship
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List of planets spotted outside our solar system now tops 500
Christian Science Monitor - Nicholos Wethington - 30 Nov 2010
19, the list of confirmed exoplanets topped 500, and that's still worth celebrating. This illustration shows the Gliese 581 planetary system, where a number ...
Will Avatar's Pandora be a reality?
Deccan Herald - 4 days ago
Hundreds of exoplanets have been discovered so far, but only a few of them have been classified as being within the habitable zone of their host star. ...
Growing Earth's oceans
MIT News - Morgan Bettex - 7 Dec 2010
This only applies to rocky exoplanets because most of the more than 500 exoplanets discovered to date are thought to be too hot and gaseous to host life. ...First exoplanet from beyond our galaxy discovered
Gizmag - Noel McKeegan - 24 Nov 2010
Among these discoveries are some extraordinary finds like the first "potentially habitable" exoplanet, but what's different about this latest discovery is ...500 planets: it's just the beginning
Cosmos - Heather Catchpole - 21 Nov 2010
An artist's view of HR 8799b, one of extrasolar planets orbiting the young star HR 8799, which lies 130 light-years away. ...SciTech Briefs - CMU The Tartan Online
Jupiter from another galaxy - BioScholar News
Balkans.com Business News
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Science links: 500th exoplanet discovered; flying snake caught on ...
al.com (blog) - 23 Nov 2010
A database kept by a Parisian astronomer lists the total number of exoplanets (as of Monday) at 502, just 15 years after the first definitive detection of a ...
Researchers Find Evidence of Other Universes Lurking in the Cosmic ...
Popular Science - Clay Dillow - 4 days ago
Just when the search for exoplanets looked like the undisputed fashionable field of study for 2010, ...
The Greatest Star Discovery
Salem-News.Com - Tyrone Borelli - 29 Nov 2010
Over 500 extrasolar planets or exoplanets have been discovered orbiting ... In the search for exoplanets, the holy grail for astronomers is to find an ...Magnetic Fields May Protect Exo-Earths After All - MIT Technology Review (blog)
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Trying to find extraterrestrial life 'really tough'
Irish Times - Ronan McGreevy - 4 days ago
International Astronomy Union (IAU) general secretary Dr Ian Corbett said breakthroughs have been made in the discovery of exoplanets – planets orbiting ...Remembering Omar Khalidi
MIT News - Heather Denny - 10 Dec 2010
Artist concept of the extremely hot exoplanet WASP-12b and the host star. Discovery opens door to new class of exoplanets, including rocky planets rich in ...
Astronomers Discover, Image New Planet In Planetary System Very
Photonics Online - Stuart Wolpert - 11 Dec 2010
"This is the fourth imaged planet in this planetary system, and only a tiny percentage of known exoplanets (planets outside our solar system) have been ...Planetary 'big brothers' in short supply
Cosmos - Bruce Dorminey - 5 days ago
SYDNEY: While the number of known exoplanets continues to grow rapidly, the number of Jupiter-like planets, in Jupiter-like orbits might not be as common as ...
Study confirms super-earth atmosphere
Balkans.com Business News - 4 days ago
GJ 1214b has a radius of about 2.6 times that of the Earth and is about 6.5 times as massive, putting it into the class of exoplanets known as super-Earths ...Planet Bling: Red-hot world discovered that could be covered with ...
Daily Mail - 5 days ago
An artist's impression of the extremely hot exoplanet WASP-12b (right) and ... The world was already known to be one of the hottest exoplanets found so far ...
Museum of Science finished renovating Planetarium
Suffolk Voice - 8 Dec 2010
The show focuses on the recent interest in exoplanets, after NASA's Keepler mission focused on finding Earth-sized planets outside of our solar system ...Mars water find tops marvels of the decade
The Australian - 1 day ago
"There's a whole zoo of earth-like exoplanets that we haven't discovered yet," said Andrew Coates, head of planetary science at the Mullard Space Science ...Scientists Discover the First Carbon-Rich Planet—Which May Have ...
Big Think - Michio Kaku - 3 days ago
JPL recently stated that astronomers don't currently have the technology to observe the cores of exoplanets, or planets orbiting beyond our sun, ...Quantum mechanics, invisibility cloaks and water on Mars: The ...
Daily Mail - 1 day ago
Exoplanets: In the year 2000, researchers were aware of just 26 planets outside our solar system. By 2010, that number had jumped to 502—and still counting. ...
The Atmosphere of WASP-17b
Universe Today - 22 Nov 2010
One of the greatest potentials of transiting exoplanets is the ability to monitor the spectra and examine the composition of the planet's atmosphere. ...NASA Creates Arsenic-Based DNA
PC The Cowl - 9 Dec 2010
Arsenic is an element that is considered toxic, and NASA researchers are now wondering whether the element might be located on exoplanets. ...Searching for ET
The Space Review - Lou Friedman - 6 Dec 2010
The explosive rate of discovery of extrasolar planets is also advancing SETI. The number of exoplanets is now over 500, and probably will be thousands by ...
The Argument for Pluto: Why the Tiny Dwarf Is Still a Planet
The Atlantic (blog) - 1 day ago
... sub-dwarf planets (a possible category for objects like Vesta and Pallas), and a wide variety of exoplanets, which orbit stars other than our Sun. ...Bright ideas to conquer new worlds
Irish Times - 25 Nov 2010
“One way to detect exoplanets is to look for a very small dip in the light as the ... This opens up the possibility of finding exoplanets using relatively ...
Could you be Doctor Who?
Irish Times - 3 days ago
We know of over 500 such “exoplanets” and just this month scientists published details of a possibly cloudy atmosphere on one that is 40 light years from ...
Cosmic News: Lots More Stars than “Billions and Billions”
PlanetSave.com - 4 Dec 2010
Red dwarf stars (in our galaxy) are also the home stars to a large percentage of recently discovered exoplanets (such as Gliese 581c, and recently, 581g), ...Discovery of red dwarf stars increases possibility of life ... - Brahmand Defence and Aerospace News
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Daily Briefing: Thurs.
Mother Nature Network (blog) - 9 Dec 2010
And beyond the lure of space diamonds, it adds to the growing evidence of just how bizarre so-called "exoplanets" can be, says the lead author of the study, ...Science journals round-up
USA Today - Dan Vergano - 11 Dec 2010
The surprises from exoplanets continue this week, with the report online in Nature that the 'hot Jupiter' WASP-12b has a carbon-to-oxygen ratio much higher ...
Looking Up: Planet just passing through
Wicked Local Mattapoisett - Peter Becker - 4 Dec 2010
More than 500 exoplanets (as they are called) have been found in the past ... Astronomers searching for exoplanets found that the greater the star's metal ...Boston's Hayden Planetarium to Reopen
Gearlog (blog) - 29 Nov 2010
... Worlds: The Search Beyond Our Sun, an original astronomy show that explores the study of exoplanets, meaning planets outside our solar system. ...The enigma of terrestrial life (update)
Gearfuse - Matthew Battles - 3 Dec 2010
... here on Earth—let alone on the surfaces of far-off moons in our own solar system, much less the still-mysterious exoplanets orbiting distant starts. ...A Life Less Ordinary - Columbia Journalism Review (blog)
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Starstruck
Boston Globe - Sam Allis - 26 Nov 2010
The answer was unequivocal: the search for exoplanets. Some 500 have been discovered in the past 15 years alone, and scientists expect many more will be ...The Estimated Number of Stars in the Universe Just Tripled
Discover Magazine (blog) - 1 Dec 2010
More stars, of course, means the opportunity for more planets, and many recently found exoplanets orbit red dwarfs. That includes Gliese 7b, the would-be ...Numbers of stars in universe tripled - Cosmos
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A Year of Exciting Activity for the IEET
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies - 2 Dec 2010
Many of us have been thrilled by the now frequent announcements about exoplanets in orbit around distant suns. As instruments and techniques of analysis ...3 Questions: Sara Seager on the discovery of a 'new' form of life
PhysOrg.com - Morgan Bettex - 3 Dec 2010
Q. What does this finding mean for finding life on exoplanets? Will researchers start to look for arsenic in exoplanet atmospheres? ...
MIT Press launches its first iPad app
MIT News - 10 Dec 2010
Artist concept of the extremely hot exoplanet WASP-12b and the host star. Discovery opens door to new class of exoplanets, including rocky planets rich in ...
Can telecom data help redraw political boundaries?
MIT News - Larry Hardesty - 8 Dec 2010
Artist concept of the extremely hot exoplanet WASP-12b and the host star. Discovery opens door to new class of exoplanets, including rocky planets rich in ...
科学家发现奇特系外行星群 或由钻石构成
新浪网 - 5 days ago
An exoplanet, called WASP-12b which is about 1200 light years from Earth and 1.4 times ... They found some exoplanets, WASP-12b included, have carbon-rich ...Museum of Science to Reopen Charles Hayden Planetarium -- Now New ...
Benzinga - 29 Nov 2010
With input from physicist-novelist Alan Lightman and leading exoplanet researchers from MIT and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, ...History Channel releases op DVD en Blu-ray Disc in december
DVD.nl - 7 Dec 2010
We bezoeken vreemde onbekende werelden in 'Exoplanets', bereiden ons voor op het ergste in 'Cosmic Collissions' en ontdekken de geheimen van onze eigen ...
Astronom Temukan Planet Baru dalam Sistem Planet Sangat Mirip Tata ...
Tempo Interaktif - 9 Dec 2010
"Ini adalah planet dicitrakan keempat dalam sistem planet ini, dan hanya sebagian kecil dari exoplanets (planet di luar tata surya kita) yang telah ...天文学家首次发现1200光年外钻石行星(图)
新华网 - 9 Dec 2010
到目前为止，科学家们已经在其他恒星周围发现了超过500颗行星，它们被称作“系外行星”(exoplanets) 分析系外行星化学成分对科学设备精密度和分析方法都具有极高的要求， ...
天文學家首次發現1200光年外鑽石行星(圖)
新華網 - 9 Dec 2010
到目前為止，科學家們已經在其他恒星周圍發現了超過500顆行星，它們被稱作“係外行星”(exoplanets) 分析係外行星化學成分對科學設備精密度和分析方法都具有極高的要求， ...
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