Exoplanets

160 Billion Exoplanets and Counting

Kyle Jarrard | Posted 05.31.2012

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News like this -- that the galaxy is bristling with potential broadcast platforms -- will only embolden these go-go pioneers. Hand them 160 billion planets and what will they say? What they've been saying all along: They just have to be out there -- meaning them.

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New Device May Transform Search For Alien Planets

Posted 05.31.2012

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By: Nola Taylor Redd Published: 05/30/2012 06:51 PM EDT on SPACE.com Astronomers searching for alien planets may be a step closer to finding tru...

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What Odd Two-From-One Alien Planets Say About Star Formation

Posted 04.30.2012

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By: Nola Taylor Redd Published: 04/30/2012 11:57 AM EDT on SPACE.com A massive alien planet that may have been ripped into Earth-size chunks by ...

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Alien Planet 'Headcount' Yields Big Surprise

Posted 03.28.2012

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By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 03/28/2012 08:04 AM EDT on SPACE.com There should be billions of habitable, rocky planets around the faint red st...

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WATCH: Alien 'Super-Earth' Called Best Bet For Supporting Life

Posted 02.03.2012

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By: Denise Chow Published: 02/02/2012 10:16 AM EST on SPACE.com A potentially habitable alien planet — one that scientists say is the best ca...

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NASA Discovery Nearly Doubles Number of Alien Worlds

The Huffington Post | David Freeman | Posted 01.27.2012

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Call it payday for planet hunters. The Kepler space telescope mission has detected 26 previously unknown planets orbiting their suns in 11 new planeta...

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Bizarre "Oozing" Planet Eyed By Astronomers

Posted 01.21.2012

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By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 01/20/2012 03:56 PM EST on Space A new look at an alien planet that orbits extremely close to its par...

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Slouching To The Right Of The Drake Equation

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D. | Posted 02.05.2012

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The last few years have been heady for planet hunters. First the hot Jupiters; then the will-o'-the-wisp Glieslings and their cousins; and the results from the Kepler mission, one of which is Kepler-22b.

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At Least 50 "Super-Earths" Discovered

Worldcrunch | Posted 11.13.2011

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GENEVA - For Michel Mayor of the University of Geneva Observatory, it was an impressive list of achievements: his team managed to discover no less tha...

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The First Habitable Planet Found?

The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 07.17.2011

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Scientists may be just steps from discovering the first habitable planet beyond our own. Gliese 581d, a planet orbiting the red-dwarf star Gliese, ...

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Life at the SETI Institute: Jon Jenkins -- Turning Pixels Into Planets

SETI Institute | Posted 05.28.2011

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After a starquake, says NASA's Dr. Jon Jenkins, "stars actually change their shape. This shape change causes an apparent change in brightness. As we study the brightness variations in time, we can essentially hear the songs of the stars."

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NASA Spots 54 Potentially Life-Friendly Planets

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — An orbiting NASA telescope is finding whole new worlds of possibilities in the search for alien life, spotting more than 50 potenti...

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Once Again With Feeling: The Planets of Gliese 581

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gliese 581 may be small as stars go, but it looms huge in the vision field of planetfinders.

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NASA Paints An Alien's View Of Our Solar System

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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*Scroll down for video.* Scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center used the Discover supercomputer to create a simulation of our solar syste...

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New Homes for ET?

Seth Shostak | Posted 05.25.2011

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The type of multiple-planet solar system we live in isn't oddball at all, but is as humdrum as hairpins. That would, of course, be good news for those who hope to find extraterrestrial life.

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The Dawn of the Exoplanets

Santhosh Mathew, PhD | Posted 05.25.2011

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Planet hunting is an extremely demanding venture as opposed to mapping the stars. Planets are buried in the cosmic ocean filled by the waves of star light.

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Dozens Of "Earth-like" Planets Discovered Outside Solar System

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — European astronomers have found 32 new planets outside our solar system, adding evidence to the theory that the universe has many p...

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Planets 'Spotted' Outside Our Own Galaxy For First Time

Telegraph | Tom Chivers | Posted 05.25.2011

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Astronomers have discovered evidence of alien planets outside our own galaxy for the first time. ...

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