Before this discovery, astronomers had one solar system with four rocky planets to study--Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars... READ MORE›
Users on the online astronomy crowdsourcing interface Planet Hunters discovered a peculiar light pattern between the Cygnus and Lyra constellations a few years ago... READ MORE›
A 15-year-old intern in England has discovered a new planet, the same size as Jupiter, while carrying out work experience at a university... READ MORE›
So Kepler could in theory support plant life, but what about alien life?... READ MORE›
The discovery was made by astronomers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and San Diego State University using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope... READ MORE›
Dr Vokoch said With recent detection of Earth-like planets in the habitable zones of other stars, we have natural targets for such transmission projects... READ MORE›
Is there life on jupiter's moons? juice may hold the key... READ MORE›
Keele University described Wagg's discovery as a hot Jupiter'' planet that tend to maintain tight orbits around its stars... READ MORE›
Hide Caption 11 of 14 Photos Where life might live beyond Earth The planet Kepler-69c is about 2,700 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus... READ MORE›
Munroe in particular pointed out the astonishing pace at which the Kepler program is discovering new planets... READ MORE›
The search should take three years with the spacecraft examining the giant planet and its icy moons including Ganymede Europa and Callisto... READ MORE›
Name the ExoWorlds Contest begins to allow the public to name exoplanets and stars... READ MORE›
Europe has approved the launch of a deep-space observatory to sniff out habitable planets in other star systems, along with any life forms they may host... READ MORE›
That close-to-Earth-size planet, Kepler-186f, also was in the habitable zone of its star... READ MORE›
Bringing in reinforcements, the team at Kepler recruited the powerful Spitzer Space telescope which can view distant objects using infrared light... READ MORE›
Space agency scientist working on the Kepler space telescope's planet-hunting mission which launched in 2009 but lost its key orientation abilities in 2013... READ MORE›
The low albedo shows we still have a lot to learn about WASP-12b and other similar exoplanets, Bell said... READ MORE›
The program was green-lit Tuesday by a committee of the European Space Agency, an intergovernmental agency dedicated to the exploration of space... READ MORE›
According to a team from the University of Vienna, this latest advance helps scientists better determine whether distant stars could be harbouring life... READ MORE›
It's possible what we see as we scan the universe for other habitable planets has been engineered to disguise or highlight the existence of other civilizations... READ MORE›
Between Kepler and other methods, scientists have now confirmed more than 3,600 exoplanets and found about 62 potentially habitable planets ... READ MORE›
PARIS - Astronomers said Thursday they had found a planetary system with three super-Earths orbiting a bright, dwarf star... READ MORE›
Kepler-1647 b is substantially larger than any of the previously known circumbinary planets... READ MORE›
Super-Earth Super-Earths are planets that are larger than the Earth but smaller than Neptune... READ MORE›
NASA's Kepler telescope made the historic discoveries, nine of which are thought to be rocky planets like Earth... READ MORE›
It also is one of the few extrasolar planets -- those outside our solar system -- to be directly imaged by telescope... READ MORE›
Building and using the Trappist infrared telescope to hunt for planets was a risky strategy... READ MORE›
Before the Kepler space telescope launched, we did not know whether exoplanets were rare or common in the galaxy... READ MORE›
But finding circumbinary planets is much harder than finding planets around single stars, co-author William Welsh, an SDSU astronomer, said... READ MORE›
Rogue Sun Could Bombard Earth With Deadly Comets... READ MORE›
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