WASHINGTON (AP) -- Astronomers have found 32 new planets outside the solar system, adding evidence to the theory that the universe has many places where life could develop....
... bodies (except satellites of the major planets) in the Solar System. The CSBN will be working with the IAU WGPSN ... names of new plutoids to ensure that no dwarf planet shares the name of another small ...
... early 1990s of the first planets outside the solar system, our system's nine (now eight ... able to run simulations spanning a planetary system's entire formation.
The simulations suggest that an average ...
... its first fuzzy photos of alien planets outside our solar system, images captured by two teams ... astronomers. The pictures show four likely planets that appear as specks of white, nearly indecipherable ...
Twin spacecrafts are heading out to search for leftovers from a rumored lost planet of the solar system.
BARCELONA, Spain, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- A rocky planet, five times larger than Earth, has been found outside the solar system, researchers reported Wednesday at a meeting in Spain.
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Cornell assistant professor of astronomy works on instrumentation that searches the night skies for planets outside our solar system, called extrasolar planets.
A NASA-funded survey set to begin in 2008 could dramatically increase the number of known planets outside our solar system.
You know the planets of our solar system, each a unique world with its own distinctive appearance, size, and chemistry. Mars, with its bitter-cold, rusty red sands; Venus, ...
The smallest planet in the Solar System has become even smaller, studies by the Messenger spacecraft show.
In general, the surface temperature of the planets decreases with increasing distance from the sun.
The planets in our solar system contain a diverse array of ingredients. But there are a lot of common elements that go into them.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have snapped the first images of a planet outside our solar system that is orbiting a star very much like the sun.
HONOLULU (AP) -- A newly discovered dwarf planet in the solar system has been given a Hawaiian name: Haumea (how-MAY'-ah), after the Hawaiian goddess of earth and fertility. Haumea's name was ...
... red-giant star than any other known planet.
"When red-giant stars expand, they tend ... think about what will happen to the outer planets of our solar system as the Sun expands," he said. "For example ...
