Extrasolar Planets News


Mission Press Releases

  • House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittees Review Search for Earth-like Planets
    House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology - Thursday, May 9, 2013
    Posted on: 5/9/2013 7:54:48 PM PDT

  • House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Discuss Exoplanet Research and Discoveries
    House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Democrats - Thursday, May 9, 2013
    Posted on: 5/9/2013 7:54:29 PM PDT

  • Astronomers Discover Five-Planet System With Most Earthlike Exoplanet Yet
    University of Washington - Thursday, April 18, 2013
    Posted on: 4/18/2013 6:09:35 PM PDT

  • Can One Buy the Right to Name a Planet? The IAU Responds to Recent Name-selling Campaign
    International Astronomical Union - Friday, April 12, 2013
    Posted on: 4/12/2013 5:12:18 PM PDT

  • Water signature in distant planet shows clues to its formation
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Thursday, March 14, 2013
    Posted on: 3/15/2013 2:50:33 AM PDT

  • The Birth of a Giant Planet? Candidate protoplanet spotted inside its stellar womb
    European Southern Observatory - Thursday, February 28, 2013
    Posted on: 2/28/2013 4:47:39 PM PDT

  • A Cool Discovery about the Sun's Next-Door Twin Alpha Centauri A
    European Space Agency - Wednesday, February 20, 2013
    Posted on: 2/20/2013 9:28:05 PM PDT

  • Kepler spacecraft helps astronomers find tiny planet beyond our solar system
    Iowa State University - Wednesday, February 20, 2013
    Posted on: 2/20/2013 9:04:33 PM PDT

  • Six Percent of Red Dwarf Stars Have Earth-sized Planets
    NASA HQ - Wednesday, February 6, 2013
    Posted on: 2/6/2013 7:52:51 PM PDT

  • Are Super-Earths Actually Mini-Neptunes?
    Royal Astronomical Society - Monday, February 4, 2013
    Posted on: 2/4/2013 4:03:00 PM PDT

  • Determining Whether Extrasolar Planets Lie in the Habitable Zone
    Pennsylvania State University - Thursday, January 31, 2013
    Posted on: 2/1/2013 12:35:15 AM PDT

  • Earth-Size Planets Are Common in Our Galaxy
    University of California Berkeley - Tuesday, January 8, 2013
    Posted on: 1/8/2013 8:59:38 PM PDT

  • Exocomets may be as common as exoplanets
    University of California Berkeley - Monday, January 7, 2013
    Posted on: 1/8/2013 1:24:52 AM PDT

  • At Least One in Six Stars Has an Earth-Sized Planet
    Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics - Monday, January 7, 2013
    Posted on: 1/7/2013 6:32:17 PM PDT

  • 15 New Planets Hint at "Traffic Jam" of Moons in Habitable Zone
    Planet Hunters - Monday, January 7, 2013
    Posted on: 1/7/2013 6:22:42 PM PDT

  • Astrophysicists find wide binary stars wreak havoc in planetary systems
    University of Toronto - Sunday, January 6, 2013
    Posted on: 1/7/2013 1:12:00 AM PDT

  • There Are At Least 100 Billion Planets in Our Galaxy
    California Institute of Technology - Thursday, January 3, 2013
    Posted on: 1/3/2013 5:52:52 PM PDT

  • Closest sun-like star may have planets
    Carnegie Institution - Saturday, December 22, 2012
    Posted on: 12/22/2012 7:52:22 PM PDT

  • Spiral Structure of Disk May Reveal Planets
    National Astronomical Observatory of Japan - Thursday, December 20, 2012
    Posted on: 12/20/2012 6:08:34 PM PDT

  • Tau Ceti, Closest Single Star Like Our Sun, May Have Habitable Planet
    University of Hertfordshire - Wednesday, December 19, 2012
    Posted on: 12/19/2012 11:11:23 AM PDT

    		• Mission Status Releases

  • Statement of Laurance Doyle Hearing on "Exoplanet Discoveries: Have We Found Other Earths?"
    House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology - May 9, 2013
    Posted on: 5/9/2013 3:47:39 PM PDT

  • Statement of John Grunsfeld Hearing on "Exoplanet Discoveries: Have We Found Other Earths?"
    House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology - May 9, 2013
    Posted on: 5/9/2013 3:46:53 PM PDT

  • Statement of James Ulvestad Hearing on "Exoplanet Discoveries: Have We Found Other Earths?"
    House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology - May 9, 2013
    Posted on: 5/9/2013 3:45:54 PM PDT

  • Statement of Rep. Steven Palazzo Hearing on "Exoplanet Discoveries: Have We Found Other Earths?"
    House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology - May 9, 2013
    Posted on: 5/9/2013 3:01:12 PM PDT

  • Statement of Rep. Larry Bucshon Hearing on "Exoplanet Discoveries: Have We Found Other Earths?"
    House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology - May 9, 2013
    Posted on: 5/9/2013 3:00:41 PM PDT

  • Statement of Chairman Lamar Smith Hearing on "Exoplanet Discoveries: Have We Found Other Earths?"
    House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology - May 9, 2013
    Posted on: 5/9/2013 3:00:08 PM PDT

  • Direct imaging discovery of 12-14 Jupiter mass object orbiting a young binary system of very low-mass stars
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - March 26, 2013
    Posted on: 3/26/2013 7:12:01 PM PDT

  • The Color of an Exoplanet
    NASA Astrobiology Institute - October 23, 2012
    Posted on: 10/23/2012 4:01:59 PM PDT

  • On the Direct Imaging of Tidally Heated Exomoons
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - October 18, 2012
    Posted on: 10/19/2012 1:33:45 AM PDT

  • Exomoon Habitability Constrained by Illumination and Tidal Heating
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - October 18, 2012
    Posted on: 10/19/2012 1:32:58 AM PDT

  • Planet Hunters: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet in a Quadruple Star System
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - October 14, 2012
    Posted on: 10/15/2012 1:06:49 AM PDT

  • Building Terrestrial Planets
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - August 24, 2012
    Posted on: 8/24/2012 1:27:03 PM PDT

  • Exoplanets: An Interactive Version of XKCD 1071
    Codementum.org - July 30, 2012
    Posted on: 7/31/2012 3:40:00 AM PDT

  • The habitability and detection of Earth-like planets orbiting cool white dwarfs
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - July 29, 2012
    Posted on: 7/29/2012 6:09:48 PM PDT

  • NASA's Kepler Detects Potential Evaporating Planet Candidate
    Ames Research Center - June 6, 2012
    Posted on: 6/6/2012 4:22:37 PM PDT

  • The remarkable solar twin HIP 56948: a prime target in the quest for other Earths
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - April 13, 2012
    Posted on: 4/14/2012 3:02:43 AM PDT

  • Artist's Concept: Compact Planetary System
    NASA HQ - March 14, 2012
    Posted on: 3/14/2012 5:10:36 PM PDT

  • Architecture of Kepler's Multi-transiting Systems: II. New investigations with twice as many candidates
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - February 29, 2012
    Posted on: 3/1/2012 4:34:08 AM PDT

  • Orbital Characterization of the B Pictoris b Giant Planet
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - February 13, 2012
    Posted on: 2/14/2012 4:51:57 AM PDT

  • Oscillations in the Habitable Zone around Alpha Centauri B
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - February 8, 2012
    Posted on: 2/8/2012 1:40:42 PM PDT

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