• Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • September 6th, 2010
Looking at How Exoplanets Form

Looking at How Exoplanets Form

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • May 25th, 2010
Exoplanets May Occasionally Be Habitable

Exoplanets May Occasionally Be Habitable

Their orbits change fairly often

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • April 14th, 2010
Protoplanetary Disks Found Orbiting Close to Their Stars

Protoplanetary Disks Found Orbiting Close to Their Stars

At about the same distance Earth orbits the Sun

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • January 13th, 2010
Exoplanetary Light Observed Directly

Exoplanetary Light Observed Directly

For the first time ever

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • January 8th, 2010
Why Earth Didn't Fall into the Sun

Why Earth Didn't Fall into the Sun

The question has puzzled astronomers for a long time

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • January 8th, 2010
CoRoT-7b Started as a Gas Giant

CoRoT-7b Started as a Gas Giant

Only the rock remained

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • January 6th, 2010
15 Percent of Milky Way Stars Have Solar Systems

15 Percent of Milky Way Stars Have Solar Systems

New statistics yield this promising result

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • October 26th, 2009
Explaining Eclipsing Binary Star Systems

Explaining Eclipsing Binary Star Systems

Some stars play hide-and-seek

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • September 14th, 2009
Exoplanet to Be Used as a 'Mobile Science Lab'

Exoplanet to Be Used as a 'Mobile Science Lab'

Scientists will assess another planet's core through it

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • August 14th, 2009
The Chance for Life May Be Higher than Thought

The Chance for Life May Be Higher than Thought

Older theories are being questioned

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • August 12th, 2009
Astronomers Find Exoplanet Orbiting 'Backwards'

Astronomers Find Exoplanet Orbiting 'Backwards'

It spins in the opposite direction to its star

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • June 11th, 2009
Planet-Forming Disk Found Orbiting Binary Star System

Planet-Forming Disk Found Orbiting Binary Star System

The stars are called V4046 Sagittarii

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • May 29th, 2009
Study Finds Even Smallest Stars Have Planets

Study Finds Even Smallest Stars Have Planets

More planets could exist than originally thought

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • May 7th, 2009
Life Could Easily Develop Around Orange Dwarfs

Life Could Easily Develop Around Orange Dwarfs

It would appear that they are just right for life

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • April 28th, 2009
Experts Get Hint at Stars' Powerful Tides

Experts Get Hint at Stars' Powerful Tides

They infer missing planets around the bodies

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • April 22nd, 2009
Astronomers Find Most Earth-Like Exoplanet

Astronomers Find Most Earth-Like Exoplanet

It only has 1.9 Earth masses

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • April 10th, 2009
Life Is Not 'a Picnic' Around Red Dwarfs

Life Is Not 'a Picnic' Around Red Dwarfs

Planets around these stars could still have atmospheres

 
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