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Strange Blue World: Alien Planet's True Color Revealed, a First by Miriam Kramer, Staff Writer 7 hours ago Call it the deep blue dot. For the first time, scientists have seen the visible color of a distant alien world. The exoplanet — called HD 189733b — is 63 light-years from Earth and a...

Planet with four suns discovered A planet with four suns has been identified by two "armchair astronomers". The bright new world, just under 5,000 light years away, is believed to be six times the size of Earth. It orbits one pair of stars and is in turn circled by a second pair. As a result, a...

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A team of researchers has discovered a Jupiter-like planet located on the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. It is the first of its kind to be discovered, as it is believed that the planet (called HIP 13044b) and its parent star (HIP 13044) formed outside of our galaxy and were "captured" by the...

AP – This image provided by the European Southern Observatory Wednesday Sept. 16, 2009 shows an artist rendition … By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein, Ap Science Writer – 45 mins ago...

Planets orbit stars in the same direction that the stars rotate. They all do. Except one. A new found planet orbits the wrong way, backward compared to the rotation of its host star. Its discoverers think a near-collision may have created the retrograde orbit, as it is called. The star and its...

City Commons Club Noon Luncheon with Charles Townes on “Confluence of Science and Religion†Luncheon at 11:45 a.m. for $13, speech at 12:30 p.m., at the Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant St. 526-2925...

City Commons Club Noon Luncheon with Tom Goldstein on “What Journalism Does Right and What it Does Wrong.†Luncheon at 11:45 a.m. for $13, speech at 12:30 p.m., at the Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant St. 526-2925...