Astronomers find first habitable Earth-like planet, ESO “Astronomers have discovered the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date, an exoplanet with a radius only 50% larger than the […]
Exoplanets, -moons, -comets
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Exoplanets and M Stars
Members of NAI’s Virtual Planetary Laboratory Alumni Team and their colleagues have a new paper in the current issue of Astrobiology. They present a critical discussion of M star properties […]
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Habitability of Planets Around M Dwarf Stars
Multidisciplinary work from members of NAI’s SETI Institute Team and a host of collaborators across the NAI re-examines what is known at present about the potential for a terrestrial planet […]
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Plants on Other Planets May Not be Green
Differently colored plants may live on extra-solar planets, according to two new papers in the current issue of Astrobiology authored by members of NAI’s Virtual Planetary Laboratory Alumni Team and […]
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Final Assembly of Earth-Like Planets
NAI Postdoctoral Fellow Sean Raymond leads a team of authors from NAI’s University of Colorado, Boulder, and University of Arizona Teams, and Virtual Planetary Laboratory and University of Washington Alumni […]
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New Issue of Astrobiology Online
Search for Habitable Planets Outside Earth’s Solar System in Astrobiology “Which planets outside of Earth’s Solar System are most likely to be capable of supporting life is a question that […]
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Hot Earths: Formation, Detection and Structure
Special session at the 210th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Honolulu, HawaiiThursday May 31 (Morning) Convenors: Nader Haghighipour and Eric Gaidos (University of Hawaii NAI Lead Team) The […]
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NAI Director's Seminar 3/26: "Infrared Spectra of Extrasolar Planets"
Speaker: Drake Deming (Planetary Systems Laboratory & Goddard Center for Astrobiology, Goddard Space Flight Center) Date/Time: Monday, March 26, 2007 11AM PDT Abstract: Two independent scientific groups have recently reported […]
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The 2007 Michelson Summer Workshop
Intended for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, the 2007 Michelson Summer Workshop: “Planetary Transits: Detection to Characterization,” will take place at the NASA Ames Conference Center, Moffett Field, CA July […]
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Spectra of Two Extrasolar Planets
Researchers from NAI’s Carnegie Institution of Washington and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Teams have a new paper in Nature describing the infrared spectrum of exoplanet HD 209458b as obtained […]