Neptune News - Space Science News RSS FeedsSpace Science :: NeptuneNeptune News Stories, Current Neptune News Events, Discoveries and Articleshttp://www.brightsurf.com/rss.news.xml?search=Neptune Neptune News Stories Current Neptune News Events, Discoveries and Articles 32 new exoplanets found The latest batch of exoplanets announced today comprises no less than 32 new discoveries. Including these new results, data from HARPS have led to the discovery of more than 75 exoplanets in 30 different planetary systems. (2009-10-20) NAE announces award winners John Casani and Sheila Widnall During its 2009 annual meeting, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) will present two awards for extraordinary impacts on the engineering profession. (2009-10-02) Primitive asteroids in the main asteroid belt may have formed far from the sun Many of the objects found today in the asteroid belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter may have formed in the outermost reaches of the solar system. (2009-07-16) Galileo's notebooks may reveal secrets of new planet Galileo knew he had discovered a new planet in 1613, 234 years before its official discovery date, according to a new theory by a University of Melbourne physicist. (2009-07-09) NASA/University team develops new method to find alien oceans NASA-sponsored scientists looking back at Earth with the Deep Impact/EPOXI mission have developed a method to indicate whether Earth-like alien (extrasolar) worlds have oceans. (2009-05-27) New technique could find water on Earth-like planets orbiting distant suns Since the early 1990s astronomers have discovered more than 300 planets orbiting stars other than our sun, nearly all of them gas giants like Jupiter. (2009-05-26) Lightest exoplanet yet discovered Well-known exoplanet researcher Michel Mayor today announced the discovery of the lightest exoplanet found so far. The planet, "e", in the famous system Gliese 581, is only about twice the mass of our Earth. (2009-04-22) Water acts as catalyst in explosives The most abundant material on Earth exhibits some unusual chemical properties when placed under extreme conditions. (2009-03-23) Huge pressures that melt diamond on planet Neptune determined by Sandia researchers The enormous pressures needed to melt diamond to slush and then to a completely liquid state have been determined ten times more accurately by Sandia National Laboratories researchers than ever before. (2009-02-18) European team finds smallest transiting extrasolar planet ever The CoRoT satellite has discovered a planet only twice as large as the Earth orbiting a star slightly smaller than the Sun. It is the smallest extrasolar planet (planet outside our solar system) whose radius has ever been measured. (2009-02-03) |
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