Science news articles about 'exoplanet'

Two new exoplanets and an unknown celestial object are the latest findings of the COROT mission. These discoveries mean that the mission has now found a total of four new exoplanets.

GREENBELT, Md., Oct. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. space agency scientists say they've identified another way by which astronomers can identify exoplanets in their search for habitable planets.

The first detection of carbon dioxide on a distant world could be a step in the right direction for eventually finding habitable exoplanets, a controversial new study suggests.

... thermal emission in the near-infrared from another exoplanet named TrES-3b, also from the ground. Information ...

Transiting exoplanets are routinely detected when they pass in front of their parent star as viewed from the Earth, which only happens ...

... covered in lava or water vapour. About 330 exoplanets have been discovered so far, most of which are gas giants ... some of these objects," he added. Very few exoplanets found so far have a mass comparable to Earth ...

... this new strategy for planet hunting by identifying an exoplanet that went undetected in Hubble images taken ...

Measurements of light reflected off the Earth show how to look for evidence of oceans on exoplanets.

... international team of scientists has found that giant exoplanets orbiting very close to their stars could lose a quarter ...

... ' candidate," continued Udry. The gentle pull of an exoplanet as it orbits the host star introduces a tiny ... how far we have come since we discovered the first exoplanet around a normal star in 1995 — the one around ...

... .com) -- An international team of scientists has found that giant exoplanets orbiting very close to their stars could lose ...

Scientists have found that giant exoplanets orbiting very close to their stars could lose a quarter of their mass during ...

Optical observations show night and day sides of tidally locked exoplanet.

... has detected the atmosphere of a known giant gas exoplanet, demonstrating the telescope's extraordinary scientific capabilities ...

... set of measurements, however, could not provide the mass of the exoplanet. Such a result requires extremely precise measurements ... , this is the first time that the density has been measured for such a small exoplanet. The calculated density is close to Earth's, suggesting ...