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60,000-year-old microbes found in Mexican mine: NASA scientist
Feb 20, 2017 (AFP)
NASA scientists have discovered living microorganisms trapped inside crystals for as long as 60,000 years in a mine in Mexico. These strange ancient microbes ha...
Hunting for runaway worlds
Feb 17, 2017 (SPX)
Arizona State University astronomer Adam Schneider and his colleagues are hunting for an elusive object lost in space between our sun and the nearest stars. The...
The heart of a far-off star beats for its planet
Feb 15, 2017 (SPX)
For the first time, astronomers from MIT and elsewhere have observed a star pulsing in response to its orbiting planet. The star, which goes by the name HAT-P-2...
Exoplanetary moons formed by giant impacts could be detected by Kepler
Feb 15, 2017 (SPX)
NASA's Kepler observatory should be able to detect planetary moons - yet to be discovered - formed by far-away planetary collisions outside our solar system, re...
Astronomy team finds more than 100 exoplanet candidates
Feb 14, 2017 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers has released the largest ever compilation of exoplanet-detecting observations made using a technique called the radial velo...
Possibility of Silicon-Based Life Grows
Feb 14, 2017 (SPX)
Science fiction has long imagined alien worlds inhabited by silicon-based life, such as the rock-eating Horta from the original Star Trek series. Now, scientist...
NASA finds planets of red dwarf stars may face oxygen loss in habitable zones
Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)
The search for life beyond Earth starts in habitable zones, the regions around stars where conditions could potentially allow liquid water - which is essential ...
Dwarf star 200 light years away contains life's building blocks
Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)
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Dwarf star 200 light years away contains life's building blocks
Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)
Many scientists believe the Earth was dry when it first formed, and that the building blocks for life on our planet - carbon, nitrogen and water - appeared only...
Santa Fe Institute researchers look for life's lower limits
Feb 07, 2017 (SPX)
When energy and nutrients abound, a bacterium will repair itself while synthesizing new parts to create a twin and then split, all as quickly as conditions allo...
Dedicated Planet Imager Opens Its Eyes to Other Worlds
Feb 03, 2017 (SPX)
An astronomical instrument on Maunakea specifically designed to see planets around other stars has been successfully commissioned and has started to reveal stun...
New planet imager delivers first science at Keck
Jan 31, 2017 (JPL)
A new device on the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii has delivered its first images, showing a ring of planet-forming dust around a star, and separately, a cool,...
First footage of a living stylodactylid shrimp filter-feeding at depth of 4826m
Jan 25, 2017 (SPX)
Depths such as those at the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument are an extreme challenge for explorers, providing scarce information about their inhabitant...
SF State astronomer searches for signs of life on Wolf 1061 exoplanet
Jan 20, 2017 (SPX)
Is there anybody out there? The question of whether Earthlings are alone in the universe has puzzled everyone from biologists and physicists to philosophers and...
Looking for life in all the right places with the right tool
Jan 13, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers have invented a range of instruments from giant telescopes to rovers to search for life in outer space, but so far, these efforts have yielded no de...
VLT to Search for Planets in Alpha Centauri System
Jan 10, 2017 (SPX)
ESO has signed an agreement with the Breakthrough Initiatives to adapt the Very Large Telescope instrumentation in Chile to conduct a search for planets in the ...
Hubble detects 'exocomets' taking the plunge into a young star
Jan 09, 2017 (SPX)
Interstellar forecast for a nearby star: Raining comets! NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered comets plunging onto the star HD 172555, which is a youthf...
Could dark streaks in Venusian clouds be microbial life
Jan 09, 2017 (SPX)
The question of life on Venus, of all places, is intriguing enough that a team of U.S. and Russian scientists working on a proposal for a new mission to the sec...
Between a rock and a hard place: can garnet planets be habitable
Jan 06, 2017 (SPX)
What makes a rocky planet Earth-like? Astronomers and geoscientists have joined forces using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to study the mix of e...
The blob can learn and teach
Dec 26, 2016 (SPX)
It isn't an animal, a plant, or a fungus. The slime mold (Physarum polycephalum) is a strange, creeping, bloblike organism made up of one giant cell. Though it ...
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