Extrasolar Planets
New Technique Allows Astronomers to Discover Exoplanets in Old Hubble Images
[/caption] The Hubble Space Telescope has recently provided us with some astonishing images of exoplanets orbiting distant stars. This is…
Powerful Fusion Laser to Recreate Conditions Inside Exoplanets
[/caption]We've all heard that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will collide particles together at previously unimaginable energies. In doing so,…
NASA’s Kepler Mission Ready for Launch
[/caption] NASA's Kepler spacecraft is ready to be moved to the launch pad today and will blast off within…
The Milky Way Could have Billions of Earths
With the upcoming launch in March of the Kepler mission to find extrasolar planets, there is quite a lot of…
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…