News articles tagged with 'exoplanet'
Telescope ferrets out planet-hunting targets
— 9 Apr 2011 11:37 | AstronomyAstronomers have come up with a new way of identifying close, faint stars with NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer satellite. The technique should help in the hunt for planets that lie…
Discovery of a pulsating star that hosts a giant planet
— 19 Jan 2011 18:38 | AstronomyRecently published in an article of the Astronomy and Astrophysics journal, a group of researchers from the Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC) at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona…
Qatar-led international team finds its first alien world
— 14 Dec 2010 19:39 | AstronomyIn an exciting example of international collaboration, a Qatar astronomer teamed with scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics (CfA) and other institutions to discover…
NASA's Spitzer reveals first carbon-rich planet
— 9 Dec 2010 17:12 | HealthAstronomers have discovered that a huge, searing-hot planet orbiting another star is loaded with an unusual amount of carbon. The planet, a gas giant named WASP-12b, is the first carbon-rich…
First super-Earth atmosphere analysed
— 2 Dec 2010 19:43 | AstronomyThe planet GJ 1214b was discovered in 2009 using the HARPS instrument on ESO's 3.6-metre telescope in Chile. Initial findings suggested that this planet had an atmosphere, which has…
Planet from another galaxy discovered
— 19 Nov 2010 11:14 | AstronomyOver the last 15 years, astronomers have detected nearly 500 planets orbiting stars in our cosmic neighbourhood, but none outside our Milky Way has been confirmed. Now, however, a planet…
Can we spot volcanoes on alien worlds? Astronomers say yes
— 8 Sep 2010 12:21 | AstronomyVolcanoes display the awesome power of Nature like few other events. Earlier this year, ash from an Icelandic volcano disrupted air travel throughout much of northern Europe. Yet this…
Richest planetary system discovered
— 24 Aug 2010 16:18 | Astronomy'We have found what is most likely the system with the most planets yet discovered,' says Christophe Lovis, lead author of the paper reporting the result. 'This remarkable discovery…
Caltech astronomer finds planets in unusually intimate dance around dying star
— 29 Jul 2010 11:04 | AstronomyHundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitary worlds orbiting their parent star in seeming isolation. With further observation,…
VLT detects first superstorm on exoplanet
— 24 Jun 2010 12:07 | Astronomy'HD209458b is definitely not a place for the faint-hearted. By studying the poisonous carbon monoxide gas with great accuracy we found evidence for a super wind, blowing at a speed…