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that if the stars for other planets were in a different state than our sun and if the light frequency that reached the planets' surface was different, then...

be listed among the major planets. A minor furor erupted when the IAU suggested removing Pluto from the pantheon of planets a few years ago. Because of...

exciting. It doubles the amount of transiting planets found!" With two other transiting extrasolar planets announced in September, the confirmed SWEEPS...

its planet status, but becomes the prototype of a distinct class of dwarf planets. Ceres and 2003 UB313 also have been recognised as dwarf planets. Charon...

subcategory of planets that have orbits around the sun that take at least 200 years to complete - effectively this will mean planets that orbit beyond...

British astronomers. The planet's name is derived from the group that discovered it, WASP (Wide Angle Search for Planets). The planet is approximately one...

there are many ocean planets. From the size and the mass we get the density," added Pont who wrote in a report about the planet saying "the mass and radius...

Switzerland and Portugal discovered the planets using the ESO 3.6-m telescope from the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher or HARPS, located at the...

that the body is indeed a planet — five times the size of Jupiter, the largest planet that orbits our own sun. Extra-solar planets such as this have been...

Harrington described the planet as looking "like the evil eye." "This planet is off the temperature scale that we expect for planets," said Drake Deming of...

to dim, which usually means a planet has crossed in front of the star. Scientists hope to find at least 10-40 planets, and additional gas giants. "These...

range from −31 to −12 degrees Celsius. Prior to this discovery, two other planets were discovered in the low or "cold" end and the high or "hot" end of the...

not we colonize other planets. "The long-term survival of the human race is at risk as long as it is confined to a single planet," he said during a Thursday...

enough light to detect molecules in the atmospheres of planets outside the solar system. The planets are too far away to be observed directly with current...

will get a rare show on Sunday night, just before the local Sunrise. The planets Mars, Mercury and Jupiter will line up and will be seen in clear skies...

The journal also states the planet was found using a method called gravitational microlensing, which detects small planets with a mass like that of Earth...

planetary system where Wolszczan found the very first extrasolar planets in 1992. The planet, approximately one-fifth the mass of Pluto, orbits the pulsar...

three other rocky planets have in the past been discovered in orbit around a pulsar. There are two other gaseous, Jupiter-like planets in orbit around the...

distant planets. "This observation is proof that spectroscopy can eventually be done on a cooler and potentially habitable Earth-sized planet orbiting...

made the first confirmed discovery of a planet orbiting another star. Scientists have been trying to locate planets outside our own solar system for nearly...