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London, Sep. 13 (ANI): There are thousands of habitable moons orbiting planets in other solar systems trillions of miles from our own, British scientists say.

On the basis of mathematical calculations, scientists at the University College London have said that it should be possible to spot these moons using a space telescope launched by NASA.

Dr David [...]

Sydney, September 12 (ANI): In a new study, scientists have determined that giant gas planets like Jupiter, which orbit close to their parent star, could harbour moons the size of Earth.

According to a report by ABC News, the study was led by graduate student Tim Cassidy from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, US.

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Washington, August 13 (ANI): A new study from two of NASA’s Great Observatories has shown that radiation from massive stars may trigger the formation of many more stars than previously thought.

While astronomers have long understood that stars and planets form from the collapse of a cloud of gas, the question of the main causes of [...]

Washington, August 10 (ANI): NASA’s new exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope has detected the atmosphere of a known giant gas planet.

The find is based on a relatively short 10 days of test data collected before the official start of science operations.

Kepler was launched on March 6, 2009, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

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London, August 7 (ANI): The planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has found its first extrasolar planets, in the form of three alien worlds that had been previously discovered with ground-based telescopes.

According to a report in New Scientist, the finds confirm that Kepler’s [...]