First planet with water is spotted outside Solar System
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Astronomers on Wednesday announced they had spotted the first planet beyond the Solar System that has water, the precious ingredient for life.
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The first "sniffs of air" of two huge far-away planets reveal that they seem to be missing water, a surprising finding amid weather unlike any planets in our solar system with blast furnace-like gusts amid supersonic winds.
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BOSTON American scientists say they have discovered two of the smallest planets ever detected outside our solar system - a sign, they said, that they are on the right track in the quest to find Earth-like planets that could potentially support life.
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It is the first planetary system that really looks like our own, with outer giant planets and room for smaller inner planets, astronomers say.
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Three new planets have been discovered in other solar systems that are the closest ever found to Earth in size, scientists announced today, marking an important step in the search for planets that could support life elsewhere in the universe.
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New images obtained by a sharp-eyed Martian satellite reveal that some Red Planet features once thought to have been carved by flowing water were in fact created by other processes.
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Scientists have gotten their best look ever at the composition of planets outside our solar system, but were more surprised by what they didn't see than what they did see.
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Photographs of the Martian surface taken by an orbiting spacecraft have revealed powerful evidence that liquid water occasionally flows on the Red Planet's surface, an unexpected finding that suddenly increases the odds that the planet may harbor some kind of life.
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NASA's infrared eyes are probing the beginnings of both stars and planets.  In two separate observations, the Spitzer Space Telescope has uncovered the warm glow from a possible stellar infant and an icy disk where planets may one-day form.
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Astronomers have found what they say is the best evidence yet for water, or at least steam, in the atmosphere of a planet around another star.
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A tiny telescope has spotted a giant planet circling a faraway star, using a technique that could open a new phase of planetary discovery, according to scientists.
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European scientists have discovered what they describe as the smallest Earth-like planet orbiting a star outside of our Solar System.
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The race to find distant new âEarthsâ heated up considerably yesterday with the detection of two of the smallest planets ever detected outside the Solar System.
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Astronomers have discovered a planet that seems to have survived the puffing up of its home star, suggesting that Earth could survive the swelling of the Sun.
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Scientists taking their first "sniffs of air" from planets outside our solar system are a bit baffled by what they didn't find: water.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN  WASHINGTON - The first "sniffs of air" of two huge far-away planets reveal that they seem to be missing water, a surprising finding amid weather unlike any planets in our solar system with blast furnace-like gusts amid supersonic winds.
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We are making dangerous discoveries in space. In April, astronomers found, on our cosmic doorstep, a planet dubbed Gliese 581c. Nestling close to a dim red star, it's a rocky world only a little larger than Earth. Like Earth, it could support liquid water.