Germans discover young planet
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Astronomers discover a newborn planet in a solar system that is still in the process of forming.
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The first direct image of a planet circling another star may have been obtained by a US-European team of astronomers.
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Astronomers  have spotted a planet that has survived the massive ballooning of its parent  star, providing the first optimistic evidence for the long-term survival of  Earth.
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A new wide-field sky survey known as SuperWasp discovers two planets orbiting far-distant stars.
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10 billion years old Italian astronomers have detected a planet that survived the red giant expansion of its home star. The researchers say that the discovery could be a sneak peek at the fate that awaits the Earth, some four or five billion years from now.â¦
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New observations of dust around young stars suggest collisions of large asteroid-like objects and fledgling planets are frequent. But that doesn&#39;t likely stop the formation
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Aug. 31, 2004 - American astronomers say they have discovered the two smallest planets yet orbiting nearby stars, trumping a small planet discovery by European scientists five days ago and capping the latest
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Astronomers say they have discovered the youngest planet to date circling a sun-like star, a find that will be a boon to the field of planet-formation theory.
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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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US astronomers show that wherever there is room for a planet to form around a young star, it does.
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WASHINGTON - A tiny telescope has spotted a giant planet circling a faraway star, using a technique that could open a new phase of planetary discovery.
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German scientists are using a new computational method to analyze DNA taken from microorganisms that make up more than a third of the Earth's biomass.
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A âsuper Earthâ planet has been discovered in a star system 50 light years away. It is the smallest world to be found outside our Solar System, and probably the first rocky planet found so far, astronomers revealed on Wednesday.
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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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While striving to find ever smaller, more rocky worlds, planet hunters have moved from discovering not just Jupiter-class planets outside our solar system. Now astronomers have found two new Neptune-class planets on their road to pinpointing a new Earth-like system.
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Astronomers have found the first signature of complex organic molecules in the dust cloud around a distant star, suggesting that these building blocks of life may be a common feature of planetary systems.
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US astronomers find the smallest worlds detected circling other stars and say it is a breakthrough in the search for life in space.