Extrasolar Planets
Looking For Extraterrestrials Looking At Us
[/caption]The cosmos is a very big place, how do you begin the search for exoplanets orbiting other stars? Astronomers have…
Success: Kepler Lifts Off to Look for Other Earths
[/caption] NASA's Kepler mission lifted off without a hitch just before 11 p.m. local time Friday from Cape Canaveral Air Force…
New Technique Allows Astronomers to Discover Exoplanets in Old Hubble Images
[/caption] The Hubble Space Telescope has recently provided us with some astonishing images of exoplanets orbiting distant stars. This is…
Powerful Fusion Laser to Recreate Conditions Inside Exoplanets
[/caption]We've all heard that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will collide particles together at previously unimaginable energies. In doing so,…
NASA’s Kepler Mission Ready for Launch
[/caption] NASA's Kepler spacecraft is ready to be moved to the launch pad today and will blast off within…
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…
Q&A with Kepler Scientist from — Iowa?
[/caption] With a target launch date of March 5, NASA's Kepler mission is just weeks away from its tantalizing journey…
Next-Generation Telescope Gets Team
[/caption] Astronomy organizations in the United States, Australia and Korea have signed on to build the largest ground-based telescope in the…
Smallest Terrestrial Exoplanet Yet Detected
[/caption] The CoRoT satellite has found the smallest terrestrial exoplanet yet, -- with a diameter just under twice that of…
Weather Report for Distant Planet: Variable Heat Wave
[/caption] As mentioned in a previous article today about global warming, we on Earth worry about our planet's atmosphere rising…