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Are there more Titans than Earths in the Milky Way?
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/04/14 11:30 CDT
Might there be many Titan-like planets and moons, with atmospheres and liquid methane rain, rivers, and lakes, across the galaxy? It's an important question if you think that liquid methane environments could support alien life, because it turns out that Titan-like planets might be more common than Earth-like planets.
More on Kepler exoplanet discoveries
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/02/04 12:17 CST
Here's some links to some good followup stories on Wednesday's Kepler press briefing.
Kepler announcement today: More than a thousand exoplanets including one 6-planet system
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/02/02 12:26 CST
I wasn't able to watch the Kepler press briefing today so I will give you links to some of my favorite blogs for information on today's announcement, which follows a major data release last night as well as the publication of a paper in Nature.
Grab bag: "Rocky" exoplanet, molten lunar core, Rhea close encounter
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/01/10 02:12 CST
The Kepler exoplanet hunting mission has made news today with a report of "its first rocky planet."
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/01/06 11:50 CST
CoRoT-7b was the first unambiguously rocky planet to be discovered and was quite small, at under five Earth masses. But a press release issued today suggests that its history probably has little to do with Earth's.
Bruce Betts: Kepler discovers its first five exoplanets
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2010/01/04 12:06 CST
Congratulations to NASA's Kepler mission team on their announcement of the discovery of its first five exoplanets (planets around other stars). All five are "hot Jupiters," meaning that they are the sizes of the gas giants in our solar system, but are extremely close to their parent stars.
Europlanet : CoRoT - Preliminary Results
Posted by Doug Ellison on 2007/08/20 03:48 CDT
ESA's planet-hunting satellite COROT bagged its first exoplanet in observations of the star COROT-Exo-1.
The Planetary Society and the Search for Extrasolar Planets
Posted by Amir Alexander on 2005/10/27 12:00 CDT
Almost since it was founded in 1980, The Planetary Society has been there for the search for other worlds.











