exoplanets
Comet Hartley 2 Scouted by WISE, Hubble for Upcoming Encounter
[/caption] In a little less than a month, NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft (its current mission is called EPOXI) will fly…
Does Tidal Evolution Cause Stars to Eat Planets?
[/caption] With the success of the Kepler mission, the viability of looking for planets via transits has reached maturity. However,…
Extrasolar Volcanoes May Soon be Detectable
[/caption] We’ve all seen pictures of erupting terrestrial volcanoes from space, and even eruptions on Jupiter’s moon Io in the…
The Origin of Exoplanets
[/caption] We truly live in an amazing time for exoplanet research. It was only 18 years ago the first planet…
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…
Dropping a Bomb About Exoplanets
[/caption] Not all exoplanets are created equal, and new discoveries about the orbits of newly found extra solar planets could…
Planet of Lava a Former Gas Giant
Matryoshka dolls are a popular novelty for tourists going to Russia to bring home for their children. These dolls, which…
New Observations of TrES-2b May Reveal New Exoplanet
[/caption] For those know their solar system history, the discovery of Neptune is an especially exciting story. Before it was…
Astronomers Find Super-Earth With An Atmosphere
This artist's conception shows the newly discovered super-Earth GJ 1214b, which orbits a red dwarf star 40 light-years from our…
Forming Planets Around Binary Stars
[/caption] Fanciful science fiction and space art frequently depict the lovely visage of a twin sunset where a pair of…