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Radio telescope images reveal planet-forming disk orbiting twin suns

Astronomers are announcing today that a sequence of images collected with the Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array (SMA) clearly reveals the presence of a rotating molecular disk orbiting the young binary star system V4046 Sagittarii. (2009-06-11)

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)

Creating the astro-comb to locate Earth-like planets

Thanks to the ability of astronomers to detect the presence of extrasolar planets orbiting distant stars, scientists today are able to examine hundreds of solar systems. (2009-05-08)

Missing planets attest to destructive power of stars' tides

During the last two decades, astronomers have found hundreds of planets orbiting stars outside our solar system. New research indicates they might have found even more except for one thing - some planets have fallen into their stars and simply no longer exist. (2009-04-28)