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Carbon Dioxide Found on Extrasolar Planet

Thursday, December 11th, 2008 - 10:29:18 - Anuradha Menon

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough is an important...

Turbulent Star-Forming Region Captured

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 - 10:06:17 - Anuradha Menon

A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a turbulent star-forming region, where rivers of gas and stellar winds are eroding thickets of...

Students Discover Unique Planet

Saturday, December 6th, 2008 - 16:33:19 - Anuradha Menon

Three undergraduate students, from Leiden University in the Netherlands, have discovered an extrasolar planet. The extraordinary find, which turned...

How to Destroy an Asteroid

Friday, December 5th, 2008 - 16:46:50 - Anuradha Menon

In the hit 1998 movie Armageddon, Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck blew up an asteroid to save the world. While the film was science fiction, the chances...

Young Planets Remain Hot Longer than Assumed
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 - Shalhevet Bar-Asher
An MIT scientist suggests young planets maintain a high temperature for several million years, much longer than previously...

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Sweet Molecule Could Lead Us To Alien Life

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 - 14:37:38 - Anuradha Menon

Scientists have detected an organic sugar molecule that is directly linked to the origin of life, in a region of our galaxy where habitable planets...

Carbon Discovered on Distant Planet

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 - 10:00:27 - Ehud Rattner

Carbon dioxide, one of the telltale signs that a planet may be able to support life, has been spotted in the atmosphere of a gas giant orbiting a...

New Jupiter - Type Planet Found

Friday, November 14th, 2008 - 10:32:12 - Anuradha Menon

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. Estimated to be no more than three times...

Cassini Finds Mysterious Aurora on Saturn

Thursday, November 13th, 2008 - 12:05:09 - Anuradha Menon

Saturn has its own unique brand of aurora that lights up the polar cap, unlike any other planetary aurora known in our solar system. This odd aurora...

PlanetQuest
Friday, November 7th, 2008 - Noa Rotkop
NASA's PlanetQuest webpage features current and future exo-planet missions. The site also offers a science section composed...