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The Latest News About Extrasolar Planets

New planet may support liquid water Cosmos In September last year, the European Organisation for Astronomical Research's HARPS instrument was responsible for the discovery of 50 new extrasolar planets orbiting parent stars, including 16 new 'super-Earths', which are planets with a mass between ...

See what's up in the night sky River Falls Journal 15. The UW-River Falls Physics Department begins its spring season of free, public observatory viewings and astronomy discussions on Wednesday, Feb. 15. Objects to be seen include planets, globular clusters, open clusters, nebulae, galaxies, moons, ... and more »

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Hunter's Moons: Astronomers Use Kepler Spacecraft to Search for Exomoons PBS NewsHour Most of the planets in our solar system host sizable natural satellites. And in some planetary systems, the moons of an extrasolar planet could themselves be favorable habitats for extraterrestrial life. To answer it, a team of astronomers is now ...

Where SETI meets Intelligent Design SmartPlanet.com (blog) Nevertheless, abundant discoveries made in planetary science and astrophysics have started filling some values into the equation, and they at least seem highly favorable for the odds of life being out. In January alone, NASA's Kepler space telescope ...

This Week On The Space Show Space Fellowship Previous to that, from 1998 to 2005, he was the Director of the Space Studies Department at SwRI, and from 1994 to 1998, he was from 1994-1998 the leader of the Geophysical, Astrophysical, and Planetary Science section in SwRI's Space Sciences ...