Posts Tagged ‘exoplanets’

New Neighbors?

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

An new, nearby exoplanet may be the most habitable yet!

Universe Update, January 2012

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Coming at you from the desk of the Director of the Morrison Planetarium, hand-picked stories in space and astronomy news.

Planets, Planets, Planets

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

Reporting from day three of the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin, Texas…

The Real Tatooine

Monday, September 19th, 2011

NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered a Tatooine-like planet with two suns.

Magma Ocean & Weird Exoplanets

Friday, May 13th, 2011

This week’s space news round-up includes a magma ocean, hot Jupiters and the hunt for Earth-like exoplanets…

Kepler’s Planets

Monday, March 21st, 2011

The Kepler mission is already providing diverse data on exoplanets– might it also find life?

Science in 2010

Thursday, December 30th, 2010

2010 was a roller coaster year for science news—think exoplanets, synthetic-life, arsenic-eating bacteria (or not!), earthquakes, volcanoes and of course, the Gulf oil spill.

Unbelievable Science News!

Friday, October 29th, 2010

Freaks, Exoplanets and Sea Urchins: Here are some headlines we didn’t want you to miss this week.

Gambling Pigeons and Baseball

Friday, October 15th, 2010

Gambling pigeons, baseball, oil spill and the existence of Gliese 581g: Here are some science news stories we didn’t want you to miss this week.

Gliese 581g

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

NASA announced yesterday that the Keck 1 Telescope potentially found a rocky planet in the habitable zone.

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