News articles tagged with 'extrasolar'
Hartley 2 visible in night sky
— 21 Oct 2010 20:24 | AstronomyBackyard stargazers with a telescope or binoculars and a clear night's sky can now inspect the comet that in a little over two weeks will become only the fifth in history to be imaged…
Planet hunters no longer blinded by the light
— 16 Oct 2010 10:33 | AstronomyUsing new optics technology developed at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, an international team of astronomers has obtained images of a planet on a much closer orbit…
Prospects for finding new Earths boosted by brand new planet-finding technique
— 9 Jul 2010 11:37 | AstronomyA team of astronomers from Germany, Bulgaria and Poland have used a completely new technique to find an exotic extrasolar planet. The same approach is sensitive enough to find planets…
International team of scientists reports discovery of a new planet
— 18 Mar 2010 13:16 | AstronomyAn international team of scientists, including several who are affiliated with UC Santa Barbara, has discovered a new planet the size of Jupiter. The finding is published in the March…
Sun glints seen from space signal oceans and lakes
— 6 Jan 2010 10:26 | AstronomyIn two new videos from NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft, bright flashes of light known as sun glints act as beacons signalling large bodies of water on Earth. These observations give scientists…
Team develops new method to find alien oceans
— 27 May 2009 11:10 | AstronomyNASA-sponsored scientists looking back at Earth with the Deep Impact/EPOXI mission have developed a method to indicate whether Earth-like alien (extrasolar) worlds have oceans…
Creating the astro-comb to locate Earth-like planets
— 8 May 2009 04:51 | AstronomyThanks to the ability of astronomers to detect the presence of extrasolar planets orbiting distant stars, scientists today are able to examine hundreds of solar systems. Now researchers…
Missing planets attest to destructive power of stars' tides
— 28 Apr 2009 10:49 | AstronomyDuring the last two decades, astronomers have found hundreds of planets orbiting stars outside our solar system. New research indicates they might have found even more except for one…
Finding twin Earths: Harder than we thought!
— 22 Mar 2009 17:40 | AstronomyDoes a twin Earth exist somewhere in our galaxy? Astronomers are getting closer and closer to finding an Earth-sized planet in an Earth-like orbit. NASA's Kepler spacecraft just launched…
Astronomers discover extrasolar Super-Neptune
— 20 Jan 2009 19:42 | AstronomyAstronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics have discovered a planet somewhat larger and more massive than Neptune orbiting a star 120 light-years from Earth. While…