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New super-Earth detected within the habitable zone of a nearby starSanta Cruz CA (SPX) Feb 03, 2012 An international team of scientists has discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a nearby star. With an orbital period of about 28 days and a minimum mass 4.5 times that of the Earth, the planet orbits within the star's "habitable zone," where temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on the planet's surface. The researchers found evidence of at least one and possibly two or three additional planets orbiting the star, which is about 22 light years from ... read more |
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 NASA's Kepler Announces 11 Planetary Systems Hosting 26 Planets NASA's Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets. These discoveries nearly double the number of verified Kepler planets and triple the number of stars known ... more | .. |
 NASA's Kepler confirms 26 new planets The US space agency said Thursday its Kepler space telescope mission has confirmed 26 new planets outside our solar system, all of them orbiting too close to their host stars to sustain life. ... more |
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 Earth's Cloudy Past Could Reveal Exoplanet Details Two astronomers from Spain are trying to determine how brightly Earth would shine in the age of the dinosaurs. Their results not only reveal how Earth would look to a distant observer, but could als ... more | .. |
 Re-thinking an Alien World Forty light years from Earth, a rocky world named "55 Cancri e" circles perilously close to a stellar inferno. Completing one orbit in only 18 hours, the alien planet is 26 times closer to its paren ... more | .. |
Milky Way teaming with 'billions' of planets: study The Milky Way is home to far more planets than previously thought, boosting the odds that at least one of them may harbour life, according to a study released Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Planets around stars are the rule rather than the exception There are more exoplanets further away from their parent stars than originally thought, according to new astrophysics research. In a new paper appearing in the Jan. 12 edition of the journal, ... more |
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 Scientists Discover a Saturn-like Ring System Eclipsing a Sun-like Star A team of astrophysicists from the University of Rochester and Europe has discovered a ring system in the constellation Centaurus that invites comparisons to Saturn. The scientists, led by Ass ... more | .. |
 Kepler Mission Finds Three Smallest Exoplanets Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler mission have discovered the three smallest planets yet detected orbiting a star beyond our sun. The planets orbit a single star, called KOI-961, and are 0.7 ... more | .. |
 Kepler discovery establishes new class of planetary systems Using data from NASA's Kepler Mission, astronomers announced the discovery of two new transiting "circumbinary" planet systems - planets that orbit two stars. This work establishes that such "two su ... more | .. |
 Planet Population is Plentiful An international team, including three astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO), has used the technique of gravitational microlensing to measure how common planets are in the Milky W ... more |
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 Scientists searching for Earth-type planets should consider two-star system A group of astrophysicists from The University of Texas at Arlington plans to expand the discussion about a newly discovered planet orbiting two stars by presenting a study suggesting where an Earth ... more | .. |
 Wanted: Habitable Moons As the Kepler space telescope continues to search for potentially habitable planets, it also may reveal moons that could host life. Three new simulations will help astronomers identify rocky satelli ... more | .. |
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 New Exo planets raise questions about the evolution of stars University of Toulouse and University of Montreal researchers have detected two planets of sizes comparable to Earth orbiting around an old star that has just passed the red giant stage. This planet ... more |
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Astronomers discover deep-fried planets Two Earth-sized planets have been discovered circling a dying star that has passed the red giant stage. Because of their close orbits, the planets must have been engulfed by their star while it swel ... more | .. |
 Two new Earth-sized exoplanets discovered Hunting for habitable worlds, NASA's Kepler space telescope has unveiled two new planets, some 950 light-years away, that are the smallest yet detected, and the closest in size to Earth. In a paper ... more | .. |
Exo planets that survived red giant stage found Astronomers have discovered two Earth-sized planets that survived getting caught in the red-giant expansion of their host star. Steve Kawaler, an Iowa State University professor of physics and astro ... more | .. |
 NASA Discovers First Earth-Size Planets Beyond Our Solar System NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too close to their star to be ... more |
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 First Earth-sized planets found Astronomers using NASA's Kepler mission have detected two Earth-sized planets orbiting a distant star. This discovery marks a milestone in the hunt for alien worlds, since it brings scientists one s ... more | .. |
 NASA Discovers First Earth-size Planets Beyond Our Solar System NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too close to their star to be ... more | .. |
Earth-sized worlds spotted in new advance for exoplanets Astronomers on Tuesday said that for the first time they had spotted two Earth-sized worlds orbiting a Sun-like star, in another big advance in the search for so-called exoplanets. ... more | .. |
 Giant Super-Earths Made Of Diamond Are Possible A planet made of diamonds may sound lovely, but you wouldn't want to live there. A new study suggests that some stars in the Milky Way could harbor "carbon super-Earths" - giant terrestrial planets ... more |
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