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Space
More like Faux-malhaut b
The Spitzer Space Telescope fails to find a visible planet circling where Hubble saw one four years ago.
By Nadia Drake -
Space
Aura of life captured in Earthshine
Light from Earth reflected off the moon contains the kind of information that could prove useful in the characterization of faraway exoplanets.
By Nadia Drake -
Space
Distant world looks ripe for life
Extrasolar planet hunt spots its most Earthlike orb yet.
By Nadia Drake -
Space
Super-Earth spotted in life-friendly zone
The latest exoplanet entry creeps closer to long-sought goal of finding habitable worlds elsewhere.
By Nadia Drake -
Space
Atom & Cosmos
Planets born with off-kilter orbits, the planet formerly known as a star and more in this week's news.
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Space
First Earth-sized planets netted
The Kepler space telescope gets one step closer to its mission of discovering habitable worlds by finding two orbs of terrestrial proportions orbiting a distant sunlike star.
By Nadia Drake -
Space
American Astronomical Society Meeting
Highlights from the 220th AAS meeting held June 10-14 in Anchorage, Alaska.
By Nadia Drake -
Space
Planet search finds lots of little guys
The latest collection of extrasolar bodies to be revealed is rich in worlds not much bigger than Earth.
By Nadia Drake -
Space
Super-Earths may come in two flavors
As more exoplanets are discovered, evidence emerges that worlds can be either fluffy or dense.
By Nadia Drake -
Space
Antennas reveal Antennae
A giant radio telescope array in Chile’s Atacama Desert produces its first images.
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Space
Existence of habitable exoplanet questioned
A Swiss team has failed to confirm what has recently been claimed to be the first planet outside the solar system that might be right for life.
By Ron Cowen -
Space
Distant world looks too ripe for life
The first extrasolar planet to be discovered in its star’s habitable zone is probably inhospitably hot.
By Nadia Drake