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Artist’s rendering of extrasolar planet (stock illustration). Credit: © marcel / Fotolia Planets outside our solar system may be more hospitable to life than thought, research suggests Sttudy by astrophysicists at the University of Toronto suggests that exoplanets — planets ...

This artist’s conception depicts an Earth-like planet orbiting an evolved star that has formed a stunning “planetary nebula.” Earlier in its life, this planet may have been like one of the eight newly discovered worlds orbiting in the habitable zones ...

This artist’s impression shows the dust and gas around the double star system GG Tauri-A. Researchers using ALMA have detected gas in the region between two discs in this binary system. This may allow planets to form in the gravitationally ...

Schematic of a plasma torus around an exoplanet, which is created by the ions injected from an exomoon’s ionosphere into the planet’s magnetosphere. Credit: Image courtesy of University of Texas at Arlington Follow the radio waves to find hidden exomoons ...

This artist’s impression shows a striking pair of wildly misaligned planet-forming gas discs around both the young stars in the binary system HK Tauri. ALMA observations of this system have provided the clearest picture ever of protoplanetary discs in a ...

Diamond planets may be more common than astronomers thought. Credit: Illustration by Haven Giguere Diamond planets may be more common than astronomers thought Carbon-rich planets may be more common than previously thought, according to new research by Yale University astronomers. ...

 This image is an artist’s conception of the brown dwarf WISE J085510.83-071442.5. The Sun is the bright star directly to the right of the brown dwarf. Credit: Robert Hurt/JPL, Janella Williams/Penn State University Star is discovered to be a close ...

NASA finds 715 new  planets Kepler space telescope’s discoveries include four planets that could hold liquid surface water, believed to be key for life. Four of the newly-discovered planets were two and a half times the size of Earth. Scientists ...

New research shows that planets up to four times the size of the Earth can form around very different stars – including stars that are poorer in heavy elements. Credit: MediaFarm / Niels Bohr Institute Planets can form around different ...

 سیستم غول پیکری از سیارات فراخورشیدی کشف شده بدور یک ستاره جوان Giant System of Exo-Planets Discovered Orbiting a Young Star… گروهی از ستاره شناسان ژاپنی در ماه ژانویه 2014 با استفاده از آرایه بزرگ  (ALMA) در شیلی توانسته اند ...

 Using the powerful­ eye of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, two teams of scientists have found faint signatures of water in the atmospheres of five distant planets. The presence of atmospheric water was reported previously on a few exoplanets orbiting stars ...

At least 1,200 added to list of possible planets beyond the solar system Planet hunters and space enthusiasts, rejoice! On February 2, astronomers announced the discovery of 1,235 possible new planets in the galaxy. These strange new worlds — near ...