News tagged with habitable zones
Buried alive: Half of Earth's life may lie below land, sea
While astronomers scour the skies for signs of life in outer space, biologists are exploring an enormous living world buried below the surface of the Earth.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 09, 2010 |
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NASA's Kepler Mission Celebrates One Year in Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- One year ago this week, NASA's Kepler mission soared into the dark night sky, leaving a bright glow in its wake as it began to search for other worlds like Earth.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 04, 2010 |
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ESA chooses 3 scientific missions for further study
Dark energy, habitable planets around other stars, and the mysterious nature of our own Sun, have been chosen by ESA as candidates for two medium-class missions to be launched no earlier than 2017.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 19, 2010 |
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Kepler Mission Update: First exoplanet discovery, focal plane anomaly
(PhysOrg.com) -- Kepler is continuing to collect science data. The Kepler Science Team announced Kepler’s first exoplanet discoveries at the 215th American Astronomical Society Meeting in Washington DC on ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 20, 2010 |
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Astronomers spot second smallest exoplanet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers from the California Institute of Technology and other institutions, using the highly sensitive 10-meter Keck I telescope atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea, have detected an extrasolar planet ...
Jan 13, 2010 |
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Team predicts satellite could locate hundreds of Earth-sized planets
(PhysOrg.com) -- The race to find exoplanets -- planets outside our solar system -- continues to quicken. Last week NASA researchers announced that the agency’s new space telescope, Kepler, has discovered ...
Jan 12, 2010 |
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Astronomers: We could find Earth-like planets soon
(AP) -- Astronomers say they are on the verge of finding planets like Earth orbiting other stars, a key step in determining if we are alone in the universe.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 07, 2010 |
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Kepler Space Telescope Discovers its First Five Exoplanets
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system. ...
Jan 04, 2010 |
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Avatar's moon Pandora could be real
In the new blockbuster Avatar, humans visit the habitable - and inhabited - alien moon called Pandora. Life-bearing moons like Pandora or the Star Wars forest moon of Endor are a staple of science fiction. ...
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Starring Intelligent Aliens
The most probable place to find intelligent life in the galaxy is around stars very similar to our sun, a new study has found.
Nov 05, 2009 |
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Researcher hunts for new planets, seeking clues on solar system's origin
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Cornell assistant professor of astronomy works on instrumentation that searches the night skies for planets outside our solar system, called extrasolar planets.
Oct 13, 2009 |
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New definition could further limit habitable zones around distant suns
As astronomers gaze toward nearby planetary systems in search of life, they are focusing their attention on each system's habitable zone, where heat radiated from the star is just right to keep a planet's water in liquid ...
Jun 10, 2009 |
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Kepler Captures First Views of Planet-Hunting Territory
NASA's Kepler mission has taken its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth.
Apr 16, 2009 |
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Kepler Set to Launch Tonight on Planet Finding Mission
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Kepler spacecraft and its Delta II rocket are "go" for a launch tonight that is expected to light up the sky along Florida's Space Coast at 10:49 p.m. EST as the rocket lifts off from ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 06, 2009 |
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