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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...

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...

Smallest Extrasolar Planet Found

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 - 14:45:06 - Iddo Genuth

Astronomers have sighted the smallest extrasolar planet yet orbiting a normal star - a distant world just three times the size of our own...

Sister Solar System Found?

Thursday, February 14th, 2008 - 18:04:45 - Iddo Genuth

A team of astronomers found two extrasolar planets orbiting a star about 5,000 light years away. The Planets resemble a smaller versions of our own...

Super-Cameras Detect New Planets
Monday, November 5th, 2007 - Ehud Rattner
A team of researchers from the University of St. Andrews recently announced the discovery of three new planets orbiting a...