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The explosive deaths of massive stars can catapult stellar remnants through space with a violent kick. But astronomers thought less massive stars,... 5 Dec, 2007 10:35 am
On the night after Thanksgiving two years ago, I was at the Keck Telescope, trying to identify some very blue objects in the sky... 29 Oct, 2007 01:01 pm
The Cassini-Huygens mission was launched on 15 October 1997; 10 years later, we speak to Professor Andrew... 12 Oct, 2007 11:15 am
Exoplanets are of high interest, not only because questions regarding alien life in the universe have accompanied humanity for a long time,... 16 Apr, 2007 02:22 pm
We recently published an article by Jeremy Richardson describing "the first measured emission spectrum from two different planets orbiting other stars"... 22 Mar, 2007 11:21 am
The rapidly-evolving field of research in extrasolar planets (or exoplanets) has achieved another milestone, with the announcement of the first measured... 18 Nov, 2006 03:18 pm
Astronomers have for the first time measured the temperatures varying across the surface of a planet beyond our solar system. 19 Oct, 2006 04:15 pm
Kailash Sahu is the leading author of a report published Nature in which he describes the finding of 16 new extrasolar planets in the center of the Milky... 26 Jul, 2006 04:07 pm
Webster Cash recently reported a new method to detect Earth-like planets around nearby stars using a... 8 Jun, 2006 08:39 pm
Christophe Lovis is co-author of an report published in Nature describing the discovery of three new... |