News tagged with rocky planet
Superior Super Earths
Super Earths are named for their size, but these planets - which range from about 2 to 10 Earth masses - could be superior to the Earth when it comes to sustaining life. They could also provide an answer to ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
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Watery, rocky planets may be common in the Milky Way
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of astronomers have discovered compelling evidence that rocky planets are commonplace in our Galaxy. Leicester University scientist and lead researcher Dr Jay Farihi ...
Apr 13, 2010 |
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Life beyond Earth 'within our grasp', astronomer says
With a bit of luck and a new space telescope, within five years we could know the answer to a question that humanity has pondered for millennia: Is there life beyond Earth?
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2010 |
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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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Our unlikely solar system
Recent modeling of solar mass stars with planetary systems, found that a system with four rocky planets and four gas giants in stable orbits – and only a sparsely populated outer belt of planetesimals ...
Apr 11, 2011 |
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How common are earth-moon planetary systems?
Sebastian Elser, Prof. Ben Moore and Dr. Joachim Stadel of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, in cooperation with Ryuji Morishima of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, tried to estimate how common Earth-Moon ...
Sep 18, 2011 |
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Clocking Neptune's spin
(PhysOrg.com) -- By tracking atmospheric features on Neptune, a UA planetary scientist has accurately determined the planet's rotation, a feat that had not been previously achieved for any of the gas planets ...
Jun 29, 2011 |
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Detector technology could help NASA find Earth-like exoplanets
The hunt is on for Earth-like planets outside of our solar system. Since the 1990s, astronomers have detected more than 450 extrasolar planets -- mostly large Jupiter-sized bodies -- around nearby stars. Advances in technology ...
Jul 22, 2010 |
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Heavy metal stars produce Earth-Like planets
New research reveals that, like their giant cousins, rocky planets are more likely to be found orbiting high metallicity stars. Furthermore, these planets are more plentiful around low mass stars. This could ...
Sep 30, 2011 |
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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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Astronomers discover a rare stellar disk of quartz dust
A research team of Japanese astronomers led by Dr. Hideaki Fujiwara (Subaru Telescope) has discovered a main-sequence star that is surrounded by a rare disk of quartz dust. Collisions of planetesimals, building ...
May 05, 2012 |
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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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First Earth-like planet spotted outside solar system likely a volcanic wasteland
(PhysOrg.com) -- When scientists confirmed in October that they had detected the first rocky planet outside our solar system, it advanced the longtime quest to find an Earth-like planet hospitable to life. The rocky planet ...
Jan 06, 2010 |
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Rocky planets could have been born as gas giants
When NASA announced the discovery of over 1,200 new potential planets spotted by the Kepler Space Telescope, almost a quarter of them were thought to be Super-Earths. Now, new research suggests that these ...
Sep 16, 2011 |
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HARPS-N instrument will help confirm Kepler's planet finds
(PhysOrg.com) -- The search for planets outside our solar system continues to heat up. NASA's Kepler spacecraft has located more than 1,200 planetary candidates, however confirming them remains a challenge. ...
Feb 15, 2011 |
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