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Science & Tech News tagged with planet

New Clues Discovered to Detect Alien Planets
Science & Tech  (tags: Alien, Planet, Discovery, universe, Science )

Sophie
- 11 days ago - dailygalaxy.com
Finding alien worlds is an idea older than science-fiction itself. The problem is how planets are exceptionally difficult to spot at the best of times, what with being small dull rocks insanely far away,
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Lithium Clue for Planet-Hunters
Science & Tech  (tags: Space, Planet, Astronauts, Lithium, Science )

Alisa
- 15 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Astronomers may have found a way to identify those Sun-like stars most likely to harbour orbiting planets.
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A Cosmic But Too Hot Place to Stand: Astronomers Find First Rocky Planet Outside Solar System
Science & Tech  (tags: Astronomers, discover, planet, extrasolar, Corot-7b )

Rosemary
- 71 days ago - dailypress.com
As scientists search the skies for life elsewhere, they have found more than 300 planets outside our solar system. But they all have been gas balls or can't be proven to be solid. Now a team of European astronomers has confirmed ... Continued:
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Extrasolar Hot Jupiter: The Planet That 'Shouldn't Exist'
Science & Tech  (tags: planet, space, jupiter )

Angela
- 91 days ago - sciencedaily.com
A planet has been discovered with ten times the mass of Jupiter, but which orbits its star in less than one Earth-day.
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New Exoplanet Shouldn't Exist
Science & Tech  (tags: planet, space )

Angela
- 91 days ago - scientificamerican.com
A planet has been discovered about 325 light-years away. But what's really interesting is that it shouldn't exist.
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Astronomers Discover New Planet Orbiting A Tiny Star
Science & Tech  (tags: astronomy, sun, star, orbit, planet )

Debra
- 178 days ago - redorbit.com
Astronomers have discovered a distant "sun" residing in the constellation Aquila, in what they are calling the smallest known star to host a planet, BBC News reported.
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Mysterious Mercury: Probe Reveals Magnetic Twisters and Mammoth Crater on the Hottest Planet
Science & Tech  (tags: science, space, discovery, nasa, planet, study, news )

Maria
- 209 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
The planet Mercury is far more active than first thought with magnetic twisters which dance across its surface, scientists revealed today. Nasa's Messenger spacecraft flew past the rocky world last October and took close-up images of a third
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Most Earthlike Planet Yet Found May Have Liquid Oceans
Science & Tech  (tags: environment, planet, astronomy, earthlike, oceans )

Sarah
- 218 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
It probably wouldn't feel exactly like home. But the planet known as Gliese 581d has a lot more in common with Earth than astronomers first thought
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Two Planets Identified as Most Similar to Earth
Science & Tech  (tags: Planet, Earth, Science, Stars, Astronomers )

Jollygirl
- 219 days ago - latimes.com
After locating more than 340 planets orbiting other stars, astronomers have identified two that are the most similar to Earth so far.
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Living With A Red Dwarf
Science & Tech  (tags: red dwarf, star, sun, planet, astrobiology, science, tech, technology, research, concept, space, world, news, solar, environment, nasa, astronomy, energy, interesting, scientists )

SirRobert
- 232 days ago - astrobio.net
Not astrobiologists first choice; however, red dwarf stars have now gained acceptance as potential hosts for habitable planets throughout the Universe.
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NASA: Hubble Finds Hidden Exoplanet In Archival Data
Science & Tech  (tags: nasa, hubble space telescope, astronomy, space, planet, discovery, science, tech, technology, research, world, news, solar system, extrasolar, exoplanet, interesting, scientists )

SirRobert
- 239 days ago - nasa.gov
In 19 years of observations, the Hubble Space Telescope has amassed a huge archive of data, and in this data has been discovered an extrasolar planet (HR 8799b) which has now been located.
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New Theory Predicts Magnetic Field Strength Of Heavenly Bodies
Science & Tech  (tags: magnetic field, Universe, planet, star, Sun, Earth, solar system, mathematics, physics, computer, concept, discovery, energy, environment, interesting, news, performance, research, science, scientists, space, tech, world )

SirRobert
- 321 days ago - cordis.europa.eu
German scientists have developed a new theory, that can accurately predict the magnetic field strength of planets and stars alike.
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Planet X Video: Nibiru and Hybrid Genetics   video
Science & Tech  (tags: anunnaki, Prophecy, 2012, nephilim, angels, Bible, news, Creation, sitchin, sumerian, planet, alien, planetx, nibiru, ufo, aliens, hybrid, reptilian, illuminati, conspiracy, solar system, mars, sun, changes, earth )

Gregory
- 480 days ago - youtube.com
The idea that Earth has been visited by aliens at some point in the distant past is not a new one. Erik Von Daniken first touted the theory in his book, The Chariots of the Gods, back in the 1970's. Zecharia Sitchin takes this information...
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New Planet Found in Constellation Leo
Science & Tech  (tags: science, discovery, space, technology, astrophysics, constellation, exoplanet, orbit, planet, star )

J.
- 597 days ago - ucl.ac.uk
The new planet, dubbed GJ 436c, lies at a distance of 30 light years from the Earth and has a mass five times that of our planet, but is the smallest found to date, according to the astronomers.
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Discovery: New Planet Found To Be Younger Than 2000 Years Of Age
Science & Tech  (tags: planet, star, galaxies, space, science )

Ben
- 603 days ago - blogmyway.org
There are billion of planets out there that much much older than our. Earth was estimated to be 4.5 billion years old. To find planets that are younger than our is possible, but there aren't so many planets that are younger than Earth. UK team just fou
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