Using data from the Dark Energy Survey, researchers have found and cataloged more than 300 minor planets beyond Neptune, including more than 100 new discoveries. This updated catalog of trans-Neptunian …read more Source:: Science
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Large exoplanet could have the right conditions for life
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•Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth to be potentially habitable, opening the search for life to planets significantly larger than Earth but smaller than …read more Source:: Science
How newborn stars prepare for the birth of planets
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•Astronomers used two of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world to create more than three hundred images of planet-forming disks around very young stars in the Orion Clouds. …read more Source:: Science
New Horizons team uncovers a critical piece of the planetary formation puzzle
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•Data from NASA’s New Horizons mission are providing new insights into how planets and planetesimals — the building blocks of the planets — were formed. …read more Source:: Science
Ancient stars shed light on Earth’s similarities to other planets
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•Earth-like planets may be common in the universe, a new study implies. The team of astrophysicists and geochemists presents new evidence that the Earth is not unique. …read more Source:: Science
Atmosphere of midsize planet revealed by Hubble, Spitzer
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•Two NASA space telescopes have identified the detailed chemical ‘fingerprint’ of a planet between the sizes of Earth and Neptune. No planets like this can be found in our own …read more Source:: Science
Meteor magnets in outer space: Finding elusive giant planets
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•A team has discovered two Jupiter-sized planets about 150 light years away from Earth that could reveal whether life is likely on the smaller planets in other planetary systems. …read more Source:: Science
Small, hardy planets most likely to survive death of their stars
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•Small, hardy planets packed with dense elements have the best chance of avoiding being crushed and swallowed up when their host star dies, new research has found. …read more Source:: Science
Gravitational forces in protoplanetary disks may push super-Earths close to their stars
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•Astronomers found that as planets form out of the chaotic churn of gravitational, hydrodynamic — or, drag — and magnetic forces and collisions within the dusty, gaseous protoplanetary disk that …read more Source:: Science
Are brown dwarfs failed stars or super-planets?
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•Brown dwarfs fill the ‘gap’ between stars and the much smaller planets. But how they originate has yet to be fully explained. Astronomers may now be able to answer that …read more Source:: Science