Extrasolar Planets
Q&A with Kepler Scientist from — Iowa?
[/caption] With a target launch date of March 5, NASA's Kepler mission is just weeks away from its tantalizing journey…
Next-Generation Telescope Gets Team
[/caption] Astronomy organizations in the United States, Australia and Korea have signed on to build the largest ground-based telescope in the…
Smallest Terrestrial Exoplanet Yet Detected
[/caption] The CoRoT satellite has found the smallest terrestrial exoplanet yet, -- with a diameter just under twice that of…
Weather Report for Distant Planet: Variable Heat Wave
[/caption] As mentioned in a previous article today about global warming, we on Earth worry about our planet's atmosphere rising…
Automated Telescope Network Finds Neptune-Sized World
[/caption] Another extrasolar planet has been found, this time a Neptune-sized world orbiting a star 120 light-years from Earth. It…
Space Telescope of the Future: SIM
[/caption] Two of the hottest and most engaging topics in space and astronomy these days are 1.) exoplanets – planets…
Exoplanet Could Be More Earth-like Than Previously Thought
[/caption] In June of 2008, astronomers announced the finding of one of the smallest exoplanets yet around a normal star…
Ground-Based Telescopes Observe Atmospheres of Exoplanets
[/caption] For the first time, astronomers have measured light emitted from extrasolar planets around sun-like stars using ground-based telescopes. The…
Viewing Earth as an Extra-Solar Planet
[/caption] What if another civilization had telescopes and spacecraft better than ours? Would Earth be detectable from another planet a…
Hunt is on for “Killer” Third Star in BD+20 307 Binary System
[/caption] In September, it was announced the Chandra X-ray Observatory had spotted something very odd about BD+20 307. The binary…