New Planets

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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PHOTOS: NASA Makes 'Milestone' Discovery

HuffingtonPost.com | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 12.21.2011

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Scientists are one Earth-sized step closer to discovering a planet outside our solar system that could be suitable for life. In a study published o...

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New Planet Discovered!

The Huffington Post | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 12.01.2011

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The National Optical Astronomy Observatory announced on Wednesday the discovery of Kepler-21b, a new planet that's close to the size of earth and is o...

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Luke Skywalker's World

Seth Shostak | Posted 11.15.2011

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The Kepler 16 star system is nearly 200 times closer than Tatooine is reputed to be. But there's this difference: this planet is for real.

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TrES-2b: Astronomers Discover Darkest Known Planet (VIDEO)

Posted 10.14.2011

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Astronomers peering into other galaxies have found something bizarre -- a black planet. NASA's Kepler spacecraft discovered TrES-2b, the darkest known...

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Astronomers Discover 'Most Earth-Like' Planet Yet

Posted 07.19.2011

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A Bucketful of Worlds

Seth Shostak | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's raining planets. Members of the science team for NASA's Kepler telescope announced the tentative discovery of more than 1,200 worlds orbiting distant stars. Of these, approximately four dozen are candidates for being Earth's doppelgangers.

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Experts Spot New 5-Planet Solar System Orbiting A Sun-Like Star

AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER and FRANK JORDANS | Posted 05.25.2011

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GENEVA — Scientists say they've identified a sun-like star with as many as seven different planets – including one that might be the small...

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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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NASA Kepler Telescope Discovers Five New Planets

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — NASA's new planet-hunting telescope has found two mystery objects that are too hot to be planets and too small to be stars. The Ke...

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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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