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Are there more Titans than Earths in the Milky Way?
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.
FINDS: One Step Closer to Faraway Earths
Amir Alexander explains more about the FINDS Exo-Earths project and how it will help planet hunters detect distant Earths in the depths of space.
More on Kepler exoplanet discoveries
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
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
The Kepler exoplanet hunting mission has made news today with a report of
Help to hunt for planets!
The Planet Hunters website, like Zooniverse's other projects, is very, very easy to get up and running.
Rover news; Earth-size exoplanets; Future of Russian space
Just a linky post here.
Join Our Galactic Quest for Exoplanets
With the astronomical community is buzzing with news of an exoplanet found in a star's habitable zone, The Planetary Society will co-sponsor a special event that will be streamed live on Monday, October 4.
From the Ground and from Space, New Planetary Systems Unveiled
Two nearly simultaneous announcements by scientists that they have detected entire planetary system deep in space have set the astronomical community abuzz.
Hubble turns 20
Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope. It's hard to believe it's been going strong for so many years.
Evaporating exoplanet
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.
Kepler discovers its first five exoplanets
Congratulations to NASA's Kepler mission team on their announcement of the discovery of its first five exoplanets (planets around other stars).
Two cool discoveries today: icy-hot exoplanet and smallest ever Kuiper Belt object
There are two cool stories circulating today on the theme of discovering new places in the cosmos.
FINDS Exo-Earths Starts Up: Testing the Prototype
The prototype that Julien constructed in the lab was taken to Lick Observatory, and we had our first-light run with the fiber in July.
Europlanet : CoRoT - Preliminary Results
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
Almost since it was founded in 1980, The Planetary Society has been there for the search for other worlds.