exoplanets
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…
Second Exoplanet with Retrograde Orbit Discovered
The exoplanet HAT-P-7b has been observed to have a very curious orbit. It either has a highly tilted orbit -…
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…