First multi-planet solar system spotted
August 29th, 2012 - 12:50 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Aug 29 (IANS) Astronomers have spotted the first-ever multi-planet solar system orbiting a binary star, with the help of two telescopes in Texas.The discovery by astronomers from Texas-Austin and ... Read more...
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Habitable planet found
February 3rd, 2012 - 1:08 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Feb 2 (IANS) A potentially habitable planet orbiting a nearby star has been discovered by scientists.With an orbital period of about 28 days and a minimum mass 4.5 times ... Read more...
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Scientists discover first Earth-Size planets outside the Milky Way
December 21st, 2011 - 11:44 pm ICT by BNO News
MOFFET FIELD, CALIFORNIA (BNO NEWS) -- U.S. scientists have spotted the first Earth-size planets which are orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system, NASA announced on Tuesday. The planets are unlikely ... Read more...
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Earth-sized planets found beyond solar system
December 21st, 2011 - 2:32 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Dec 21 (IANS) NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-sized planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system, the US space agency has announced.The planets, called Kepler-20e ... Read more...
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Earth-like planet found
December 6th, 2011 - 1:40 pm ICT by IANS
London, Dec 6 (IANS) American astronomers have confirmed the existence of an earth-like planet, dubbed Kepler 22-b, in the "habitable zone" around a star similar to the sun.The planet lies ... Read more...
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Web users locate two new potential planets
September 22nd, 2011 - 10:46 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Sep 22 (IANS) Forty thousand web users worldwide have been assisting astronomers analyze light from 150,000 stars in hopes of finding earth-like or exoplanets. Now the web users have ... Read more...
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NASA finds 1,235 planets that could have extra-terrestrial lifeforms
March 30th, 2011 - 5:41 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 30 (ANI): Astronomers at NASA have spent the last two years scouring the Milky Way for Earth-like planets in their quest for foreign life forms.And they have found 1,235 planets ... Read more...
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50bn planets in Milky Way, estimates first cosmic census
February 21st, 2011 - 12:35 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 21 (ANI): The first cosmic census of planets in our galaxy has suggested that there are at least 50 billion planets in the Milky Way.And some 500 million of those ... Read more...
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Cosmic census estimates 50 billion planets in our galaxy
February 21st, 2011 - 11:29 am ICT by IANS
London, Feb 21 (IANS) A cosmic census conducted for the first time has revealed that there are at least 50 billion planets in our Milky Way galaxy.And some 500 million of those ... Read more...
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Nasa space telescope spots odd new solar system
February 3rd, 2011 - 2:48 am ICT by BNO News
WASHINGTON (BNO NEWS) -- NASA's Kepler mission has discovered a planetary system including six planets orbiting a Sun-like star called Kepler-11, located approximately 2,000 light years from Earth.
"Kepler-11 is a remarkable system ... Read more...
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Kepler 10b planet discovered
January 12th, 2011 - 10:14 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Seattle, Jan 12 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The NASA spacecraft, Kepler has discovered the smallest exoplanet so far.The new planet called Kepler 10b is about 1.4 times the diameter of earth. The discovery of ... Read more...
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Smallest rocky planet outside solar system found
January 11th, 2011 - 11:31 am ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 11 (ANI): NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first rocky planet, called Kepler-10b.The planet measures 1.4 times the size of Earth, making it the smallest planet ever discovered outside our ... Read more...
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Earth-like planets ‘may not be life-friendly’
November 7th, 2010 - 4:24 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 7(ANI): A new study has revealed that planets like the Earth that we thought could support life, might not be life-friendly, and lack a protective magnetic field.According to New Scientist, ... Read more...
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Silica on mars volcano indicates wet and cozy past on ‘Red Planet’
November 1st, 2010 - 1:04 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 01 (ANI): Three billion years old light-coloured piles of hydrated silica on a volcanic cone are the evidence of most recent habitable microenvironments on Mars, observes NASA.NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter ... Read more...
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‘Earth-like’ planet may not exist
October 14th, 2010 - 12:04 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 14 (ANI): After an exciting announcement of the discovery of a habitable Earth-like planet, a second team of scientists has cast some doubt on the claim.The planet, dubbed Gliese 581 ... Read more...
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Was Oz-Indian scientist first to discover recently found Earth-like planet?
October 12th, 2010 - 2:23 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Oct 12 (ANI): The recent discovery of 'Earth-like' planet caused a tizzy in the science world, but a Sydney scientist's claims have caused a debate regarding the find.Steven Vogt, a professor ... Read more...
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Distant star’s sound waves have cycle similar to the Sun’s
August 27th, 2010 - 2:15 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 27 (ANI): In an effort to unravel the mysteries of the Sun, including the impacts on Earth of its 11-year cycle, an international team of scientists has successfully probed a ... Read more...
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Erratic orbits of neighbouring planets may make life sustenance difficult
May 25th, 2010 - 2:04 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 25 (ANI): Astronomers have found that fluctuating orbits of surrounding planets around a seemingly habitable planet could render life impossible on it.New findings from computer modelling show that the forces ... Read more...
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ESA missions to explore dark energy, habitable planets and Sun’s mysteries
February 20th, 2010 - 6:34 pm ICT by ANI
Paris, Feb 20 (ANI): Dark energy, habitable planets around other stars, and the mysterious nature of our own Sun, have been chosen by the European Space Agency (ESA) as candidates for two ... Read more...
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Second smallest exoplanet spotted
January 14th, 2010 - 5:53 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, January 14 (ANI): Astronomers have spotted an extrasolar planet with a mass just four times that of Earth.Experts from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and other institutions made the finding ... Read more...
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Found: Second smallest planet outside solar system
January 14th, 2010 - 3:16 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Jan 14 (IANS) Astronomers have detected an extrasolar planet with a mass just four times that of Earth.
The planet, which orbits its parent star HD156668 about once every four days, ... Read more...
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NASA’s Kepler space telescope discovers 5 earth-like exoplanets
January 5th, 2010 - 1:19 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, January 5 (ANI): NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered its first five new Earth-like exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system.Kepler's high sensitivity to both small and large planets enabled the ... Read more...
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Could Avatar’s moon Pandora be for real?
December 18th, 2009 - 2:54 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Dec 18 (IANS) "Avatar", the latest blockbuster from Hollywood, showcases a human-visit to the inhabited alien moon called Pandora.
Life-bearing moons like Pandora or the Star Wars forest moon of Endor ... Read more...
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Avatar’s life-bearing moon Pandora may exist in reality
December 18th, 2009 - 12:50 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, December 18 (ANI): Scientists have said that the alien life-bearing moon shown in the latest Hollywood flick 'Avatar', could exist in reality and could be detected and studied in the next ... Read more...
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NASA’s planet hunting mission delayed due to electronic glitch
October 31st, 2009 - 1:47 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, October 31 (ANI): NASA's Kepler mission, which would search for planets around other stars, is unlikely to detect any Earth-like exoplanets before 2011 due to an electronic glitch.According to a report ... Read more...
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3 worlds that may have life on them
October 14th, 2009 - 5:55 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, October 14 (ANI): Scientists have come up with a new index to measure a world's fitness for life, and have decided upon three names that are most likely to harbor ... Read more...
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How life might evolve with “exotic” biochemistry and solvents
September 18th, 2009 - 2:08 pm ICT by ANI
London, September 18 (ANI): Scientists at a new interdisciplinary research group in Austria are working to uncover how life might evolve with "exotic" biochemistry and solvents, such as sulfuric acid instead of ... Read more...
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New calculations may further limit habitable zones around distant suns
June 11th, 2009 - 3:32 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 11 (ANI): New calculations by scientists indicate that tidal forces exerted on planets by the parent star's gravity could limit what is regarded as a star's habitable zone and change ... Read more...
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New telescope improves chances of finding aliens
June 11th, 2009 - 1:37 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 11 (ANI: Astronomers, using the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) on La Palma have confirmed an effective way to search the atmospheres of planets for signs of life, vastly improving our ... Read more...
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New technique will detect water on earth-like planets
May 26th, 2009 - 4:16 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, May 26 (IANS) Since the early 1990s, astronomers have discovered more than 300 planets orbiting far away stars, nearly all of them being gas giants like Jupiter. Now, powerful telescopes, ... Read more...
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Scientists announce discovery of lightest exoplanet found so far
April 22nd, 2009 - 2:17 pm ICT by ANI
Munich, April 22 (ANI): Scientists have announced the discovery of the lightest exoplanet found so far, which is only about twice the mass of our Earth.The planet, "e", lies in the ... Read more...
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Most Earthlike planet yet found may have water and life
April 22nd, 2009 - 12:57 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, April 22 (ANI): In a new research, an astronomer has suggested that the most Earthlike planet yet found has conditions right for liquid water, and life as we know it.According ... Read more...
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NASA’s Kepler mission sends first shots of planet-hunting territory
April 17th, 2009 - 5:17 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, April 17 (IANS) NASA's Kepler mission has captured its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth.
The new "first light" images show the ... Read more...
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Kepler camera launched: Other “earths”, where are you?
March 7th, 2009 - 11:27 am ICT by IANS
Washington, March 7 (DPA) NASA late Friday sent the Kepler satellite into Earth's orbit with instructions to search for extraterrestrial life on Earth-type planets orbiting other stars.
The launch from Cape Canaveral in ... Read more...
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NASA readies search for other Earths with Kepler launch
March 6th, 2009 - 9:47 am ICT by IANS
Washington, March 6 (DPA) Are we alone in the universe? Are there other planets like Earth? Scientists will attempt to answer those questions with a telescope being launched into orbit Friday.
The Kepler ... Read more...
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