Is first life-friendly exoplanet an 'eyeball'?
12 January 2011
One way that Gliese 581Â g could host life is if it is a frozen world with a single, pupil-like ocean of liquid water
-
Subject
-
Section
-
Type
-
Topics
-
Author
-
Issue
-
Premium
Found 674 results for dwarf planet
How to sort the dwarfs from the planets
5 January 2011
A newly discovered dearth of cosmic objects at a particular range of masses could provide a clean way to divide planets and brown dwarfs
Super-Earth's atmosphere analysed for first time
1 December 2010
A planet 6.5 times as massive as Earth called GJ 1214b has an atmosphere dominated by steam or cloudy haze, new observations suggest
Former 'tenth planet' may be smaller than Pluto
8 November 2010
Eris, a distant body that triggered the debate about what constitutes a planet, may actually be smaller than Pluto, according to new observations
First life-friendly exoplanet may not exist
13 October 2010
Two weeks after one team of astronomers announced finding the habitable planet Gliese 581 g, another team says it can find no evidence of the world in its data
Found: first rocky exoplanet that could host life
29 September 2010
A rocky body about three times as massive as Earth has been found in the cosy "habitable zone" around its star – the find suggests habitable planets are common
Unseen universe: Window on cosmic maternity wards
1 September 2010
Infrared was the first invisible radiation discovered – it has revealed asteroids, comets, interstellar dust and the birth of planets, stars and galaxies
Prehistoric humans may have pushed climate change
7 July 2010
Humans were fiddling with climate thousands of years even before we started farming – if we had a hand in the extinction of woolly mammoths
Half-eaten dwarf planet reveals chemical secrets
30 June 2010
The half-digested remains of a dwarf planet could provide the best window yet into the chemical make-up of alien solar systems
60 Seconds
23 June 2010
Cellphone cancer linked trashed, voyage to Pluto and "female Viagra"
