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Popular Mechanics
October 28, 2009
Karen Rowan |
9 Wildest Exoplanets Ever Spotted A team of European planet hunters has uncovered a bonanza of 32 new exoplanets, planets outside our solar system.   |
Salon.com
December 2, 1999
William Speed Weed |
Master of the universe With the existence of six new planets announced just this week, Geoffrey Marcy is racking up "extrasolar" discoveries like Mark McGwire racks up homers. |
Popular Mechanics
January 7, 2010
Adam Hadhazy |
Kepler's Hunt for Earths Shows Progress at Space Conference Scientists for NASA's exoplanet-hunting Kepler mission report that the orbiting space telescope has nabbed five new worlds, the first several of many that astronomers hope it will eventually discover. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2007
Mark Anderson |
Planet Hunters Wanted The rate of extrasolar planet discoveries could mount not by building new planet-finding telescopes or satellites, but by marshalling an army of amateur astronomers and enthusiasts along with their personal computers. |
Popular Mechanics
March 6, 2009
Mark Wolverton |
Can KEPLER Help Us Find Earth's Twin? With the latest universe-gazing technology, KEPLER (along with Hubble and the most advanced ground-based telescopes) will give extrasolar planet hunters a boost in the search for Earth-like planets. |
Geotimes
October 2007
Erin Wayman |
Reaching for the Stars in Planet Formation Most known exoplanets orbit stars that appear to be rich in metals. New research suggests these stars may be polluted with metal from planetary debris -- or even a planet -- that collided with the star. |
| AskMen.com |
Earth-Like Planet Found 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. |
Scientific American
November 7, 2005
Mark Alpert |
Red Star Rising Small, cool stars may be hot spots for life |
Wired
June 2001
Oliver Morton |
Shadow Science Looking for Earth-like planets outside the solar system? Bill Borucki's cheap little spacecraft can help you find a few hundred, fast... |
Popular Mechanics
July 2007
Noah Shachtman |
How NASA's New Telescope Chases Planets NASA is launching its first-ever planet-hunting mission next year, sending the Kepler spacecraft on a quest to find 1000 more planets -- and 50 new Earths. |
Wired
November 2002
Richard Martin |
The Planet Seekers Giant ground-based telescopes and adaptive optics have brought a new age in astronomy. Now the field's brightest stars are racing to take the first photograph of another world. |
Chemistry World
March 14, 2013
Jon Cartwright |
Exoplanet spectrum hints at 'core accretion' Scientists in the US and Canada have uncovered what could be the most detailed spectrum of an exoplanet to date. The spectrum reveals the presence of carbon monoxide and water, which suggest that the planet formed by core accretion. |
Geotimes
September 2005
Kathryn Hansen |
Tristar Planet A recent planet found in a triple-star system perplexes astronomers because, according to current models of planetary formation, it should not exist. |
Wired
December 2004
Patrick Di Justo |
Mysteries of the Cosmos The top 13 places to explore in outer space. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2009
Anna Bogdanowicz |
NASA Planet Hunter to Search Out Other Earths The Kepler satellite, scheduled to launch this month, will spend more than three years hunting for planets that might support life |
Chemistry World
December 2009
Jon Cartright |
Reading between the lines Since its emergence in the mid 19th century, spectroscopy has become the most important tool in astronomy, and in recent years there has been no end to its new discoveries. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
Rachel Courtland |
Single Blue Planet Seeks Same In 2012, a new exoplanet hunter will look for worlds like our own |
Geotimes
March 2006
Naomi Lubick |
Starry Lens A newly discovered planet may be the most Earth-like planet found to date outside our solar system. The discovery confirms the value of a relatively new detection method known as gravitational lensing. |
Salon.com
June 29, 2001
Suzy Hansen |
We've got company Astronomer David Darling talks about the controversial science of astrobiology and the near-certainty that extraterrestrial life forms exist in our solar system... |
Smithsonian
October 2006
Robert Irion |
What Makes a Planet? As just about everyone in the solar system knows by now, members of the International Astronomical Union came up with a new definition of planets that leaves Pluto out in the cold. |
Wired
December 2004
Frank Drake |
The E.T. Equation, Recalculated Fifty years ago, those of us who dreamed about finding extraterrestrials thought we knew where to look: planets with temperatures somewhere between the freezing and boiling points of water. |
Geotimes
March 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Young Planets Collide Size mattered, astronomers say, when it came to whether or not material in our early solar system stuck together to become today's terrestrial planets. New models suggest that collisions between large objects did not always result in those objects combining, as previously thought. |
Geotimes
October 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Planets Redefined: Pluto Gets Demoted Members of the International Astronomical Union voted to demote Pluto, and to give the asteroid Ceres a promotion. Arriving at this new system, however, was not without controversy among astronomers, the public and even geologists. |
Wired
April 2001
Tom McNichol |
Beyond Cool NASA cost-cutters want to kill a pioneering probe to the ice-cold edge of the solar system. First they have to reckon with the Pluto Underground... |
Chemistry World
March 13, 2008
Kira Welter |
Planets' Birthplace Harbours Chemical Seeds of Life Astrochemists have for the first time directly observed both organic molecules and water vapour in the region around a young star where planets form. |
Searcher
September 2011
David Mattison |
Searching for the Stars: Cosmic Views and Databases While amateur astronomers continue to play an important role in the field and are supported by numerous clubs, associations, and their peers, I have primarily examined resources originating from government and academic research environments. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2006 |
Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds. |
Geotimes
June 2005
Kathryn Hansen |
Orbital Shuffle for Early Solar System The solar system is now full of clues to its past, and astronomers, with the help of computer models, are finding new ways to link together previously unconnected observations to explain how the planetary system came to resemble what it is today. |
Scientific American
January 2009
Charles Q. Choi |
Does Dark Matter Encircle Earth? Dark matter might exert measurable effects on the earth, moon and gas giants |
Science News
November 21, 2008
Alan Stern |
Debates Over Definition Of Planet Continue And Inspire The definition of a planet continues to be debated between astronomers and planetary scientists. |
Geotimes
September 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Floral Shade Aids Search for Earths The search continues for the Earth-like planets that scientists think are most likely to harbor life, and a newly refined sunflower-shaped device could one day reveal scores of candidates currently obscured by their neighboring star's light. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2009
Logan Ward |
10 Most Brilliant Innovators of 2009: Kepler Space Telescope The Kepler telescope -- a 15-foot-long, $600 million tool for finding Earth-like planets -- captured its first image in April. |
Smithsonian
July 2007
Eric Jaffe |
Life Beyond Earth An ocean on Mars. An Earth-like planet light years away. The evidence is mounting, but are astronomers ready to say we're not alone? |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2013
Rachel Courtland |
Gaia Telescope Will Map the Milky Way The European Space Agency project will change how astronomers view our galaxy |
Popular Mechanics
November 19, 2009
Stephen Ornes |
This Is Not Your Grade School Solar System: Gallery What has changed in solar system imagery over the past few decades and what we can learn from it |
Geotimes
July 2007
Carolyn Gramling |
Mercury's Gooey Center Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, has a large core, which scientists now know is partially molten and therefore could create a magnetic field around the planet. |
Science News
March 29, 1930 |
TimeLine: Mar. 29, 1930 Wanted: Early Planet Photographs... Additional Observations... |
Popular Mechanics
January 23, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
The 5 Most Powerful Telescopes, and 5 That Will Define the Future of Astronomy Today's best telescopes are astounding feats -- and astronomers are improving them constantly. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2012
Gregory L. Matloff |
Deflecting Asteroids A solar sail could use light to nudge an earthbound rock into an orbit we could live with |
Science News
January 19, 2002 |
Planet Quest NASA's new Planet Quest Web site offers one-stop shopping for planet discovery news. |
Science News
March 22, 1930 |
TimeLine: Mar. 22, 1930 70 Years Ago in Science News: The Sun'S New Trans-Neptunian Planet... Black As Coal, Dense As Zinc... Naming The Planet |
Geotimes
December 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Space: Alien Worlds Finding Earth Analogues in Space: Q&A with planetary scientist David Stevenson. |
Scientific American
June 2009
John Rennie |
Inspirations in Space and Closer to Home Astronomers are finding new planets; humanitarians are improving this one |
Science News
December 23, 2000 |
TimeLine: December 20, 1930 70 Years Ago in Science News: Arachne Provides Lovelier Festoons For Christmas Tree... Astronomers Find Pluto as Massive as Earth... dr. Hubble Finds Galaxies Evenly Scattered in Space... |
Chemistry World
July 8, 2014
Ian Crawford |
Lucky planet Lucky Planet is a well-written, engaging, and thought-provoking addition to discussions of extraterrestrial life. |
Popular Mechanics
June 25, 2009
Lisa Merolla |
High-Tech Telescopes Yield New Galactic Photos: Gallery Space photos from advanced telescopes provide new views of the cosmos. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2006
Monte Ross |
The New Search for E.T. If extraterrestrials are trying to communicate with us, they're probably using lasers, not radio waves. |
Geotimes
November 2005
Kathryn Hansen |
Two More Moons for Pluto In addition to Pluto's confirmed moon Charon, astronomers have detected two more orbiting celestial bodies, which could help reveal how the planet and moon system formed. |
Chemistry World
September 30, 2011
Jon Cartwright |
Messenger Sheds Light on Mercury's Formation NASA's Messenger spacecraft is bringing new understanding to the question of how Mercury formed. The new information looks set to rewrite theories about the birth of the solar system's smallest planet. |
Geotimes
July 2007
Carolyn Gramling |
X-ray Eyes in the Sky Scientists are working on the next generation of low-orbiting satellites that they hope will see far past the Earth's surface and into its interior, to better understand the structure and composition of Earth's crust, mantle and core. |
