Astronomers discover first Neptune-sized planets outside our solar ...
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A team of astronomers announced last week the discovery of some of the smallest planets yet detected beyond our solar system. The two newly discovered planets represent a new class of extrasolar planets, and
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Washington, DC- Using a network of small automated telescopes known as HAT, Smithsonian astronomers have discovered a planet unlike any other known world.
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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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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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A European team of astronomers has discovered a planet only 14 times more massive than the Earth. This is the smallest extra-solar planet discovered so far, and it lies at the threshold of the largest possible
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In a discovery that has left one expert stunned, European astronomers have    found one of the smallest planets known outside our solar system, a world about    14 times the mass of our own around a star much like the Sun.
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Planet with sea views? Let's move For the first time ever, water has been conclusively identified in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system.â¦
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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 in Europe and the United States have found two new planets about 20 times the size of Earth beyond the solar system. The discovery might be a giant leap forward in
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Hawaii&#39;s Keck Observatory has confirmed the existence of a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a distant star, the first one spotted by a network of astronomers using telescopes no larger than the ones you can buy in stores.
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What might be the first directly visible planet orbiting a starlike body other than our sun was reported by scientists from Europe and Los Angeles on Friday.
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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, scientists said.
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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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A tiny telescope has spotted a giant planet circling a faraway star, using a technique that could open a new phase of planetary discovery, scientists said on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON - Astronomers in the US say they&#39;ve discovered a new class of planets orbiting stars outside our solar system. The two &quot;exoplanets&quot; are small compared to earlier finds.
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AN Irish astronomer has discovered a giant planet orbiting a distant star using simple backyard telescopes.   Francis O'Donovan's team found the new world, - larger than Jupiter - orbiting a star 500 light years away in the Draco the Dragon constellation.  (c) 2006 Daily Mirror.
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The universe looked a little more familiar and friendlier. The roll call of planets beyond the solar system swelled significantly with the announcement of a trio of newly-discovered worlds much smaller than any previously discovered around other stars.