Tag: exoplanets

Hot, Earth-Sized Exoplanet Found by Astronomers
Astronomers this week revealed that the mass of exoplanet Kepler 78b has been determined. The planet, located 400 light-y...
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Clouds Mapped on Jupiter-Like Exoplanet
Though much of the agency is preparing to shut down, NASA this week announced that astronomer...
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Kepler Space Telescope Broken, NASA Gives Up on Restoration
Sometimes the best physicists, engineers, and mathematicians in the world can't save a failing satellite. NASA announced today...
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Smallest Planet Yet Spotted Around Sun-Like Star
Astronomers this week announced they have directly imaged the smallest planet yet found around a sun-like star. The plane...
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Hubble Telescope Spots a Blue Planet
Astronomers have been finding and cataloging exoplanets for yea...
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Three Planets Found in the Habitable Zone of Nearby Star
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) this week announced it has found six planets in the Gliese 667C system, and that three o...
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Giant Planet Formation May Have Been Spotted
Astronomers have found what could be the first-ever sighting of a plan...
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NASA’s Kepler Finds Extra-Solar Planets Smaller Than Earth
Over the past year, NASA's Kepler mission has found...
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Earth-Sized Planets May be Close by, Shows Study
Astronomers this week published a new study that estimates six percent of red dwarf stars may have Earth-sized...
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Rogue Planet Orbit Spotted by NASA’s Hubble
New images of the Fomalhaut star system could show evidence of a "titanic planetary disruption." Astronomers have found t...
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461 New Planet Candidates Discovered by NASA’s Kepler, Including Four Earth-Like Ones
Astronomers last week announced that they estimate there to be...
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100 Billion Planets Populate the Milky Way Galaxy, Say Astronomers
For years now, NASA's Kepler mission has been confirming the existence o...
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Giant Planet Formation Revealed in New Observations
Astronomers have spotted a system that could reveal a key stage in the formation of giant...
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Cassini to Track Venus Transit, Study Exoplanets
NASA announced today that it will begin using the Cassini probe's visua...
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New “Super-Jupiter” Directly Imaged by Astronomers
Astronomers have directly imaged a "super-Jupiter" planet orbiting around the star Kappa Andromedae. According to NASA, Kapp...
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