Science news articles about 'earthlike planets'

... could boost the sensitivity of astronomical tools searching for other Earthlike planets as much as 100 fold. The dime- ... small planets would cause color shifts equivalent to a star wobble of just a few ...

BOULDER, Colo., May 12 (UPI) -- U.S. and German scientists say they've created an ultrafast laser that, among other things, might aid in the search for Earthlike planets.

... that NASA's Kepler spacecraft, due to launch in early March and dedicated to searching for Earthlike planets, will put his ideas to the test. Russell Hemley, director of Carnegie's Geophysical ...

New measurements suggest that the planet known as Gliese 581d has a lot more in common with Earth than first thought—and it has a previously unknown sister planet that is the lightest yet found.

The mixture of moondust and carbon nanotubes could be used to make giant telescopes to more easily detect signs of life from distant Earthlike planets.

... disks around sunlike stars show that planets nearly as small as Mars can create patterns ... dust could present an obstacle to directly imaging earthlike planets. Future space missions -- such as NASA's ...

... planets orbiting other stars. Organic compounds also can be a by-product of life processes and their detection on an Earthlike planet someday may provide the first evidence of life beyond our planet.  ...

... that carries them, example by example, along the path that will lead to the future moment that an Earthlike planet is found in a nearby star's habitable zone with an atmosphere that suggests the ...

... that this type of frequency comb could boost the sensitivity of astronomical tools searching for other Earthlike planets as much as a hundredfold. In addition, the new comb could be useful in a NIST ...