Comparative Planetology
Comparative Planetology Science covering terrestrial planet & diverse worlds and their origin and evolution. Know about why is comparative planetology useful, comparative planetology astronomy and finding differences in planets in our solar system and beyond.
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May 31, 2016Researchers combine climate, orbit models to show that Kepler-62f might be able to sustain life. -
Apr 18, 2016Scientists on NASA’s New Horizons mission team are learning more about the structure and behavior of Pluto’s complex atmosphere by discovering new attributes of its extensive haze layers. -
Apr 11, 2016Astrophysicists have used data from the NASA Kepler space telescope to discover a class of extrasolar planets whose atmospheres have been stripped away by their host stars. -
Mar 31, 2016Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have led to the first temperature map of a super-Earth planet -- a rocky planet nearly two times as big as ours. -
Feb 29, 2016New research from the University of Washington-based Virtual Planetary Laboratory will help astronomers better identify and rule out “false positives” in the ongoing search for life. -
Feb 20, 2016Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have measured the rotation rate of an extreme exoplanet by observing the varied brightness in its atmosphere. -
Feb 17, 2016For the first time astronomers were able to analyse the atmosphere of an exoplanet in the class known as super-Earths. -
Feb 15, 2016A new method reveals atmospheres of faraway rocky worlds. -
Feb 8, 2016New research finds that rocky worlds share similar structures, with a core containing about a third of the planet's mass, surrounded by a mantle and topped by a thin crust. -
Dec 14, 2015A survey of 10 hot, Jupiter-sized exoplanets has led a team to solve a long-standing mystery--why some of these worlds seem to have less water than expected.
