NASA, Texas Astronomers Find First Multi-Planet System around a Binary Star
The discovery of the Tatooine-like system proves that whole planetary systems can form in a disk around a binary star.
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Astronomers Probe ‘Evaporating’ Planet Around Nearby Star with Hobby-Eberly Telescope
A Jupiter-size planet in a nearby solar system is dissolving because of interactions with its parent star.
Texas Astronomers Collaborate to Find Goldilocks Planet
The planet is the first located in the "just-right" orbit that's not too hot, nor too cold for water to exist in liquid form, making life as we know it possible.
Astronomers Discover Unusual Multi-Planet Solar System With NASA’s Kepler Spacecraft
A team of researchers has used NASA's Kepler space telescope to discover an unusual multiple-planet system containing a super-Earth and two Neptune-sized planets orbiting in resonance with each other.
'Out of Whack' Planetary System Offers Clues to Disturbing Past
The discovery of a planetary system “out of whack,” where the orbits of two planets are at a steep angle to each other, was reported today (May 24) by a team of astronomers led by Barbara McArthur of the McDonald Observatory.
Texas Astronomers Aid Kepler Mission's Discovery of New Planets
Kepler mission astronomers, including co-investigator Bill Cochran of The University of Texas at Austin, announced today the spaceborne telescope has found five new gas giant planets orbiting close to Sun-like stars.
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