Extrasolar Planets
Updated Exoplanet iPhone App
[/caption] Just in time for the announcement yesterday of the multi-planet solar system discovery, and an upcoming exoplanet announcement by…
Another Solar System Like our Own?
There is another Sun-like star out there with an intriguing family of planets orbiting about and it could be the…
Tight Binaries are ‘Death Stars’ for Planets
[/caption] Astronomers studying double star systems where the two stars are extremely close have found a pattern of destruction. While…
Did Kepler Scientist Leak Data? Um, Not Really
[/caption] Mainstream media (MSM) is funny. Well, maybe funny isn't the right word, especially when they hose things up and…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Brown Dwarfs Are Magnetic Too
[/caption] I feel a certain empathy for brown dwarfs. The first confirmed finding of one was only fifteen years ago…
Hubble Confirms Comet-like Tail on Vaporizing Planet
Next time you hear someone complaining that it's too hot outside, you can make them feel better by pointing out…
Astronomers Watch Superstorm Raging on Distant Exoplanet
[/caption] Likely, future interstellar flights will not include the exoplanet HD209458b as a featured get-away destination. Not only is this…
New Worlds to Explore? Kepler Spacecraft Finds 750 Exoplanet Candidates
[/caption] The Kepler spacecraft has found over 750 candidates for extrasolar planets, and that is just from data collected in…
Weird Collection of Worlds in the Latest Cache of CoRoT Expoplanets
[/caption] The CoRoT (Convection, Rotation and Transits) spacecraft has been busy, and using this exoplanet-finding-machine astronomers recently found six new…
Exoplanet Confirms Gas Giants Can Form Quickly
[/caption] For the first time, astronomers have been able to directly follow the motion of an exoplanet as it moves…