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Searching a sea of 'noise' to find exoplanets - using only data as a guide
Dec 22, 2016 (SPX)
Yale researchers have found a data-driven way to detect distant planets and refine the search for worlds similar to Earth. The new approach, outlined in a study...
Exciting new creatures discovered on ocean floor
Dec 21, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered six new animal species in undersea hot springs 2.8 kilometres deep in the southwest Indian Ocean. Th...
Astronomers discover dark past of planet-eating 'Death Star'
Dec 20, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of scientists, including researchers from the University of Chicago, has made the rare discovery of a planetary system with a host star si...
Are planets like those in 'Star Wars
Dec 20, 2016 (JPL)
In the "Star Wars" universe, ice, ocean and desert planets burst from the darkness as your ship drops out of light speed. But these worlds might be more than ju...
Microlensing Study Suggests Most Common Outer Planets Likely Neptune-mass
Dec 20, 2016 (SPX)
A new statistical study of planets found by a technique called gravitational microlensing suggests that Neptune-mass worlds are likely the most common type of p...
Carbonaceous chondrites shed light on the origins of life in the universe
Dec 16, 2016 (SPX)
The meteorite samples analysed in this study come from NASA's Antarctic collection and derive from asteroids and, possibly, from comets. "Chondrites are non-dif...
New species found near ocean floor hot springs
Dec 15, 2016 (UPI)
Researchers have discovered six new species living near hydrothermal vents on the sea floor. The collection of hot springs, called Longqi, which translates as "...
Winds of rubies and sapphires strike the sky of giant planet
Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)
Signs of powerful changing winds have been detected on a planet 16 times larger than Earth, over 1000 light years away - the first time ever that weather system...
Rings around young star suggest planet formation in progress
Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)
Rice University astronomers and their colleagues have for the first time mapped gases in three dark rings around a distant star. The rings mark spaces where pla...
ALMA finds compelling evidence for pair of infant planets around young star
Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)
Astronomers now know that our galaxy is teeming with planets, from rocky worlds roughly the size of Earth to gas giants bigger than Jupiter. Nearly every one of...
Atlas of the RNA universe takes shape
Dec 12, 2016 (SPX)
As the floor plan of the living world, DNA guides the composition of animals ranging from unicellular organisms to humans. DNA not only helps shepherd every org...
Scientists examine bacterium found 1,000 feet underground
Dec 12, 2016 (SPX)
Pioneering work being carried out in a cave in New Mexico by researchers at McMaster University and The University of Akron, Ohio, is changing the understanding...
Who needs a body? Not these larvae, which are basically swimming heads
Dec 12, 2016 (SPX)
Graduate student Paul Gonzalez at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station recently became a hunter, breeder and farmer of a rare marine worm, all to fill i...
New telescope chip offers clear view of alien planets
Dec 07, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists have developed a new optical chip for a telescope that enables astronomers to have a clear view of alien planets that may support life. Seeing a plan...
Meta musings on the origins of life
Dec 06, 2016 (SPX)
In 1953, the chemist Stanley Miller cracked open one of the deepest mysteries of science. Working under his mentor Harold Urey, Miller electrified a mixture of ...
ALMA measures size of seeds of planets
Dec 06, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), have for the first time, achieved a precise size measurement of small dust particles ...
Could There Be Life in Pluto's Ocean?
Dec 02, 2016 (SPX)
Pluto is thought to possess a subsurface ocean, which is not so much a sign of water as it is a tremendous clue that other dwarf planets in deep space also may ...
Biologists watch speciation in a laboratory flask
Nov 30, 2016 (SPX)
Biologists have discovered that the evolution of a new species can occur rapidly enough for them to observe the process in a simple laboratory flask. In a month...
Life before oxygen
Nov 30, 2016 (SPX)
Somewhere between Earth's creation and where we are today, scientists have demonstrated that some early life forms existed just fine without any oxygen. While r...
Timing the shadow of a potentially habitable extrasolar planet
Nov 29, 2016 (SPX)
A group of researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the University of Tokyo, and the Astrobiology Center among others has observe...
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