Scientists discover two new extra-solar planets
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Astronomers scouring nearby stars have found two planets that mirror Neptune in size, making them by far the smallest found outside the solar system.
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Astronomers have found the latest planet in another solar system â-r &quot;exoplanet&quot; â -ng telescopes no bigger than those you might find at a garage sale.
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A group of European-led astronomers has made a photograph of what appears to be a planet orbiting another star. If so, it would be the first confirmed picture of a world beyond our solar system.
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Honolulu, HawaiiÂ -- The world's largest and most prolific team of planet hunters announced Monday the discovery of 28 new planets outside our solar system, increasing to 236 the total number of known exoplanets.University of California, Berkeley, post-doctoral fellow Jason T.
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Scientists in Britain say they are making remarkable advances in the search for life in other solar systems, though results are more than a decade off.
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A nearby star thought to harbor comets and asteroids now appears to be home to planets, too. The presumed worlds are smaller than Jupiter and could be as tiny as Pluto, new observations suggest.
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Five new moons have been discovered orbiting the giant planet Neptune.
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UK scientists using the Cassini probe find a new ring and one, possibly two, new objects orbiting Saturn.
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A new planet was discovered orbiting a sun-like star 41 light years away, making it the first known planetary quintet outside our solar system, astronomers said Tuesday.
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Planet-building is dusty work, and now two space telescopes have captured images of cosmic construction materials: disks of dust circling stars about the same size as our sun.
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For the first time, scientists have found rings of dust around planet-bearing stars &#151; an important confirmation of theories about how planets form, NASA announced Thursday.
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28 new planets orbiting distant stars beyond our solar system are detected by an international team.
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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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People have long gazed at the sky and wondered if there were other worlds&#x2014;Earths&#x2014;in orbit around the distant stars.  Since the 1992 announcement of pulsar planets by Alex Wolszczan, more than 130 giant (Jupiter and Saturn size) planets in orbit about nearby stars have been discovered using ground-based telescopes. In 2007, NASA's Kepler Mission will begin the space-based search for extrasolar planets. Over its planned observing lifetime, Kepler is likely to discover many hundreds of extrasolar planets both large and small. ...
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A group of European-led    astronomers has made a photograph of what appears to be a planet orbiting another    star. If so, it would be the first confirmed picture of a world beyond our solar    system.
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European scientists have discovered what they describe as the smallest Earth-like planet orbiting a star outside our Solar System.
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Astronomers have discovered four new planets in a week's time, an exciting end-of-summer flurry that signals a sharper era in the hunt for new worlds.