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New planet hunting spacecraft planned
2-23-2014 |
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The recently selected PLATO mission will focus on identifying Earth-like worlds orbiting distant stars.
Hypervelocity stars could leave the galaxy
1-14-2014 | 11
Astronomers have identified a mysterious group of 20 sun-sized stars travelling at high speed.
Where are the closest alien planets ?
12-28-2013 | 12
Astronomers believe that there could be an exoplanet orbiting a nearby pair of brown dwarf stars.
1 in 5 stars orbited by habitable world
11-7-2013 | 25
Scientists believe that our universe is filled with far more habitable planets than previously thought.
Extrasolar planet tally reaches 1,000
10-23-2013 | 10
Since 1992 the number of planets discovered orbiting distant stars has been growing exponentially.
Can humanity afford a real life Star Trek ?
5-23-2013 | 79
The starships of the Star Trek universe seem a long way off both technologically and financially.
New 'habitable zone' planets discovered
4-19-2013 | 10
NASA's Kepler mission has found several new potentially habitable planets orbiting distant stars.
SETI focuses efforts on known exoplanets
2-11-2013 | 94
An effort to listen out for intelligent aliens in the direction of stars with planets has drawn a blank.
Are there alien messages in the stars ?
12-3-2012 | 34
Astrophysicist Lucianne Walkowicz believes that there could be something obvious we are missing.
Has the universe almost done making stars ?
11-11-2012 | 24
Astronomers have found that the rate of star birth is 30 times less than it was 11 billion years ago.
Think tank to tackle interstellar travel
9-6-2012 | 42
The 100 Year Starship Project is aimed at developing interstellar space flight within the next century.
'Impossible' binary stars discovered
7-8-2012 | 12
Astronomers have discovered two red dwarf stars orbiting one another in a record breaking 2.5 hours.
Spacecraft could navigate using pulsars
4-2-2012 | 5
Future spacecraft could one day use dead stars as a way to determine their position in space.
Planet discovered orbiting two stars
9-18-2011 | 10
Astronomers have identified a Saturn-sized planet 200 light years away orbiting around two stars.
Interstellar planets could harbour life
5-15-2011 | 20
Planets that exist on their own away from stars or orbits could potentially host alien life.
Two planets, two stars, one system
10-28-2010 | 0
Astronomers have discovered two Jupiter-like planets orbiting two close sister stars.
Vatican astronomer speaks out on alien life
9-18-2010 | 53
The Pope's astronomer has said that he believes intelligent alien life with souls may be living among the stars.
Stars reveal carbon 'spaceballs'
7-23-2010 | 7
The largest ever known molecules the size of footballs have been detected in cosmic dust around a distant star.
Dust disk found around distant star
7-18-2010 |
A new discovery could prove to answer one of the most enduring astronomical conundrums - how large stars are born.
Space cloud holds clues to massive star birth
5-13-2010 | 3
A vast interstellar cloud has been discovered that can produce massive stars that completely dwarf our own sun.
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