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Researchers propose low-mass supernova triggered formation of solar system
Nov 29, 2016 (SPX)
A research team led by University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy Professor Yong-Zhong Qian uses new models and evidence from meteorites to show th...
Fijian ants began farming 3 million years ago
Nov 27, 2016 (UPI)
Ants have been farming for at least 3 million years. New research suggests Fijian ants were the planet's first plant farmers. As detailed in a new paper publish...
Scientists from the IAC discover a nearby 'superearth'
Nov 17, 2016 (SPX)
The PhD student Alejandro Suarez Mascareno, of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL), and his thesis directors at...
Earth-bound instrument analyzes light from planets circling distant stars
Nov 11, 2016 (SPX)
A team of scientists and engineers led by Princeton researchers recently reported the successful operation of a new instrument for the Subaru Telescope in Hawai...
Scientists unveil latest exoplanet-hunter CHARIS
Nov 10, 2016 (UPI)
The Subaru Telescope's latest instrument addition, CHARIS, is functioning properly according to new tests. In a new study, scientists detailed a successful firs...
Protoplanetary Discs Being Shaped by Newborn Planets
Nov 10, 2016 (SPX)
Sharp new observations have revealed striking features in planet-forming discs around young stars. The SPHERE instrument, mounted on ESO's Very Large Telescope,...
What happens to a pathogenic fungus grown in space?
Nov 02, 2016 (SPX)
A new study, published this week in mSphere, provides evidence that Aspergillus fumigatus, a significant opportunistic fungal threat to human health, grows and ...
Potential new hunting ground for exoplanets discovered
Oct 31, 2016 (SPX)
Via a NASA-led citizen science project, eight people with no formal training in astrophysics helped discover what could be a fruitful new place to search for pl...
Giant Rings Around Exoplanet Turn in the Wrong Direction
Oct 31, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers from Japan and the Netherlands who were previously involved in the discovery of an exoplanet with huge rings have now calculated that the giant ring...
How Planets Like Jupiter Form
Oct 31, 2016 (SPX)
Young giant planets are born from gas and dust. Researchers of ETH Zurich and the Universities of Zurich and Bern simulated different scenarios relying on the c...
Discovery of binary-binary calls solar system formation into question
Oct 31, 2016 (SPX)
Everything we know about the formation of solar systems might be wrong, says University of Florida astronomy professor Jian Ge and his postdoc, Bo Ma. They've d...
Preferentially Earth-sized Planets with Lots of Water
Oct 28, 2016 (SPX)
Computer simulations by astrophysicists at the University of Bern of the formation of planets orbiting in the habitable zone of low mass stars such as Proxima C...
Tatooine worlds orbiting 2 suns often survive violent escapades of aging stars
Oct 26, 2016 (SPX)
Planets that revolve around two suns may surprisingly survive the violent late stages of the stars' lives, according to new research out of the NASA Goddard Spa...
Oldest known planet-forming disk found
Oct 25, 2016 (SPX)
A group of citizen scientists and professional astronomers, including Carnegie's Jonathan Gagne, joined forces to discover an unusual hunting ground for exoplan...
Astronomers find oldest known planetary disk
Oct 21, 2016 (UPI)
At 45 million years old, a newly discovered primordial ring of gas and dust is the oldest known planet-forming disk in the universe. The record-breaking circums...
ALMA spots possible formation site of icy giant planet
Oct 21, 2016 (SPX)
A number of extrasolar planets have been found in the past two decades and now researchers agree that planets can have a wide variety of characteristics. Howeve...
Cloudy Nights, Sunny Days on Distant Hot Jupiters
Oct 19, 2016 (JPL)
The weather forecast for faraway, blistering planets called "hot Jupiters" might go something like this: Cloudy nights and sunny days, with a high of 2,400 degr...
Proxima Centauri might be more sunlike than we thought
Oct 14, 2016 (SPX)
In August astronomers announced that the nearby star Proxima Centauri hosts an Earth-sized planet (called Proxima b) in its habitable zone. At first glance, Pro...
TESS will provide exoplanet targets for years to come
Oct 10, 2016 (SPX)
NASA's search for planets outside of our solar system has mostly involved very distant, faint stars. NASA's upcoming Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS...
The death of a planet nursery?
Oct 06, 2016 (SPX)
The dusty disk surrounding the star TW Hydrae exhibits circular features that may signal the formation of protoplanets. LMU astrophysicist Barbara Ercolano argu...
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