The leading source for credible citizen reporting

Report Your News
Take the tour...

This event is older than two months and is no longer active. Some links older than two months could be broken.

Report Your News

Click here to post a new related report

Rocky planet found outside solar system

Washington : DC : USA | 2 months ago  
Views: 11
Astronomers have finally found a place outside our solar system where there's a firm place to stand — if only it weren't so broiling hot. A Nova Scotia garlic farmer has put the brakes on high speed internet coming to Victoria Harbour, a rural community on the Bay of Fundy. T-Mobile USA has dropped a plan...
  • Print
  • Share:
  • Share
  • Digg
  • Reddit
  • Facebook
  • Stumbleupon

Related Allvoices Contributions

News Stories
 
  • News Source: Asian Age | 2 months ago
    Astronomers have finally found a place outside our solar system where there’s a firm place to stand — if only it weren’t so broiling hot. As scientists search the skies for life elsewhere, they have found more than 300 planets outside our solar...
  • News Source: Uinta County News | 2 months ago
    Back in February, astronomers announced the discovery of an alien planet dubbed CoRoT-7b. The discovery came from the French-built satellite CoRoT (short for Convection, Rotation, and planetary Transits), which detected this distant world repeatedly...
  • News Source: CNN | 2 months ago
    Scientists have discovered the first confirmed Earthlike planet outside our solar system, they announced Wednesday. "This is the first confirmed rocky planet in another system," astronomer Artie Hatzes told CNN, contrasting the solid planet with...
  • News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | 2 months ago
    Astronomers have finally found a place outside our solar system where there's a firm place to stand — if only it weren't so broiling hot. A Nova Scotia garlic farmer has put the brakes on high speed internet coming to Victoria Harbour, a rural...
  • News Source: Times Online | 2 months ago
    New observations of a planet named Corot-7b, which circles a star 500 light years away in the constellation Monoceros (the Unicorn), have shown that its density is similar to the Earth’s, indicating that it is also a solid, rocky world. The...
  • News Source: News 24 | 2 months ago
    Detailed data about the smallest planet ever found outside our solar system suggest it is a rocky "super-Earth" world very like our own, European astronomers said on Wednesday. The so-called exoplanet, whose initial discovery was announced in...
Most Popular Reports

Related Tweets

  • timobriennyt

    @timobriennyt TimOBrienNYT: Found: Firm place to stand outside solar system http://bit.ly/1p7K5Q

    2 months ago
  • chocolak

    @chocolak mattdanzico: The first rocky, solid planet outside our solar system has been found. Going to hold off on buying that lake cottage... http://bit.ly/4xnw2H

    2 months ago
  • mattvolz

    @mattvolz Found: 1st rocky planet like Earth outside solar system! Too bad it's 3,600 degrees and 500 light years from home: http://bit.ly/tuVvB

    2 months ago
  • RobertAndrews

    @RobertAndrews Superted can't *always* be there to save you, especially on the planet earth

    2 months ago

Related Allvoices Reports

Contributions

Help and Accounts


Use of this site is governed by our Terms of Use Agreement and Privacy Policy.

© Allvoices, Inc 2008-2009. All rights reserved.