News tagged with rocky planet
Building Planet Earth
A new study shows how rocky planets are formed from the manic swirl of gas and dust that surround a young star, and determines what chemical building blocks are used to construct the planets. Understanding ...
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Astronomers do it Again: Find Organic Molecules Around Gas Planet (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Peering far beyond our solar system, NASA researchers have detected the basic chemistry for life in a second hot gas planet, advancing astronomers toward the goal of being able to characterize ...
Oct 20, 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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Kepler and the Search for Life in Our Galaxy
(PhysOrg.com) -- There are so many stars in our galaxy that even if planets with complex life (animals and plants) are rare - say one for every billion stars - there could still be dozens here in the Milky ...
Sep 15, 2009 |
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The greenhouse gas that saved the world
When Planet Earth was just cooling down from its fiery creation, the sun was faint and young. So faint that it should not have been able to keep the oceans of earth from freezing. But fortunately for the creation of life, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Planet-Hunting Method Succeeds at Last
(PhysOrg.com) -- A long-proposed tool for hunting planets has netted its first catch -- a Jupiter-like planet orbiting one of the smallest stars known.
May 28, 2009 |
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NASA Details Plans for Lunar Exploration Robotic Missions
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's return to the moon will get a boost in June with the launch of two satellites that will return a wealth of data about Earth's nearest neighbor. On Thursday, the agency outlined the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 22, 2009 |
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Solar systems around dead Suns?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers have found that at least 1 in 100 white dwarf stars show evidence of orbiting asteroids and rocky planets, suggesting ...
Apr 20, 2009 |
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Adventures in the 'Goldilocks zone'
When NASA's Kepler telescope rocketed into the night sky last week, two Berkeley astronomers watching its fading contrail were hoping that the telescope will reveal Earth's — and humanity's — place in the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Dead Stars Tell Story of Planet Birth
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have turned to an unexpected place to study the evolution of planets -- dead stars. Observations made with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal six dead "white dwarf" stars littered ...
Jan 05, 2009 |
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