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...