Wed. October 15, 2008
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Astrobiology Magazine
October 15, 2008
Astronomers hope that the data will help develop techniques to search for habitable
planets around distant stars.
scientists using ESA's Venus Express are ...
Russia-InfoCenter
October 15, 2008
The aim of the project is to develop some techniques for detection of life on other planets. Images show our home planet to have the size of one pixel ...
DailyTech
October 15, 2008
Once the methods used to determine the presence of life are optimized,
scientists will use them to help find Earth-like
planets in other
solar systems that ...
Ars Technica
October 15, 2008
By Matt Ford | Published: October 15, 2008 - 11:34AM CT Finding
planets outside of our
solar system is difficult work. Until recently, we didn't know of ...
Daily Mail
October 15, 2008
By Daily Mail Reporter The planet, known as WASP-12b, is believed to be an amazing 2250 centigrade, about half as hot as
the sun. The planet, which one and ...
Science Daily (press release)
October 15, 2008
ScienceDaily (Oct. 15, 2008) - Hot, young
planets may be easier to spot because they stay that way longer than
Astronomers have thought, according to new ...
Rutland Herald
October 15, 2008
The most brilliant "star" gleaming in the south isn't a star at all: it's the planet Jupiter. All
planets shine by the reflected light of
the sun, ...
Science News
October 14, 2008
Other planets, such as Uranus, and especially Neptune, show signs of possible storm activity at the poles, but observations from Earth of these planets are ...
MIT News
October 14, 2008
Young
planets around other stars may be easier to spot because they stay hotter way longer than
Astronomers have thought, according to new work by MIT ...
Ars Technica
October 14, 2008
He predicts that, when the
James Webb Space
telescope becomes operational, the first terrestrial
planets it spots will orbit around a class of low-mass ...
North Platte Telegraph
October 14, 2008
By SHARRON HOLLEN More than 3800 students have toured the Sheldon Museum of Art exhibit, " From Particles to planets," currently on display in North Platte. ...
PALGN
October 14, 2008
... to expand on the game's Space Age by letting players beam down their creatures from their spaceships in an effort to explore through new planets. ...
Stuff.co.nz
October 14, 2008
"We have found about 300 large Jupiter-size masses, or they are very, very young and hot planets further away from their host stars," he said. ...
Deccan Herald
October 14, 2008
There are now around 300 exo
planets known and the list is only growing, says C Shivaram The
planets in the
solar system have company. ...
Imperial Valley News
October 14, 2008
Tucson,
Arizona -
Astronomers searching for rocky
planets that could support life in other
solar systems should look outside, as well as within, ...
AccuWeather.com
October 14, 2008
These
planets can be twenty times closer to their stars than Earth is to
the sun, so of course the dayside of the planet can get quite toasty, ...
WorthPlaying.com
October 14, 2008
With customizable ships and characters from the Klingon Empire and United Federation of planets, ground, space and shipboard gameplay and unique options for ...
Malaysia Sun
October 14, 2008
Approximately 300
planets have been discovered around other stars, and for most of those
planets,
scientists know little more than the mass and orbital ...
Space Ref (press release)
October 14, 2008
Turbulence generated by
thunderstorms can drive the multiple east-west jet streams on the giant
planets -- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune -- and ...
University of Arizona News (press release)
October 13, 2008
By Lori Stiles, University Communications Computer simulations of the atmospheric circulation on Jupiter-like planets around other stars can explain ...
The Space Review
October 13, 2008
Space.com
October 13, 2008
In essence, if we want to find life on alien
planets, we have to study a planet known to host life to determine what clues to look for,
scientists say. ...
Space Daily
October 12, 2008
Finding such
planets would answer one of the great questions of modern
science: are
planets like Earth common or rare? We stand on a great divide in the ...
Entertainment and Showbiz!
October 12, 2008
The list of
planets and
satellites that possess liquid water is growing faster than can be explored. As one of the new
NASA Astrobiology Institute teams, ...
Cumberland Times-News
October 12, 2008
When
scientists turned on their machine, did it create light, water,
planets, stars, moons and life, or just push particles of matter around? ...
Science News
October 12, 2008
By Ron Cowen Jupiter, often thought to protect the inner planets from space debris, may sometimes hurl material toward Earth. According to a popular model ...
Hindu
October 12, 2008
Supercomputer simulations of dusty disks around sunlike stars show that
planets nearly as small as Mars can create patterns that future
telescopes may be ...
DVD Talk
October 11, 2008
With shows like
planet Earth being all the rage, History Channel took that idea and expanded upon it, showing us detailed features of
planets within our own ...
Discover Magazine
October 11, 2008
Although the planets are too faint to be seen directly, their motions cause the star's spectrum to wobble back and forth across the digital detector of an ...
Norwich Bulletin
October 11, 2008
At least some
Astronomers in the 19th century were convinced that there are, or should be, other inhabited
planets. Reading or listening to reports dealing ...
Sydney Morning Herald
October 11, 2008
An expert in the hunt for extra-
solar planets and the mysterious dark matter of the universe, Sackett was just months into her new position as director of ...
Reuters UK
October 11, 2008
The
planets sweep into optimal position every two years. Costs for the probe, which is about the size of a
sport utility vehicle and is designed to assess ...
PR-CANADA.net (press release)
October 11, 2008
Travis is taking a progressive stance with his clients revealing their need to "consider their planets future" through holding educational seminars in the ...
MarketWatch
October 11, 2008
The research points to a new avenue in the search for habitable planets. "It may be a while before we can directly image earthlike planets around other ...
BBC News
October 11, 2008
Because it gets by without
oxygen, it could offer clues as to whether life exists on other
planets. The loneliest living species known to
science was found ...
Daily Press
October 10, 2008
HAMPTON - James Head, a professor at Brown University, will present a free lecture called "The Exploration of
the moon and
planets: A New Perspective on ...
Lamron
October 9, 2008
Each planet inspired segment of Holst's "planets" had something vastly different and elaborate to present to the audience. Enescu's "Romanian Rhapsody" was ...
FortBendNow
October 9, 2008
by John Pape STARGAZING - Blue Ridge Elementary students recently had the chance to see the alignment of three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Venus, ...
