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Nearby Exoplanet Found with Hydrogen Sulfide Atmosphere
Jul 09, 2024 (SPX)
HD 189733 b, a gas giant similar in size to Jupiter, reveals new information about sulfur's role in planetary formation and atmospheric composition. The presenc...
MIT engineers find a way to protect microbes from extreme conditions
Jul 08, 2024 (SPX)
Their method involves mixing bacteria with food and drug additives from a list of compounds that the FDA classifies as "generally regarded as safe." The researc...
Geoscientists dig into why we may be alone in the Milky Way
Jul 02, 2024 (SPX)
In a study published online April 12 in Nature's Scientific Reports, Stern and Dr. Taras Gerya, a professor of Earth sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of ...
Organic material from Mars reveals the likely origin of life's building blocks
Jul 02, 2024 (SPX)
In a meteor crater on the red planet, a solitary robot is moving about. Right now it is probably collecting soil samples with a drill and a robotic arm, as it h...
Search for extraterrestrial life focuses on detecting exoplanet atmospheres
Jul 01, 2024 (SPX)
"The holy grail is always to find traces of life," said Sebastian Zieba, affiliated with Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg and Leiden Obse...
Scientists reveal the density differences of sub-Neptunes due to resonance
Jul 01, 2024 (SPX)
Exoplanets are abundant in our galaxy, and the most common are those between the radius of Earth (around 6,400 km) and Neptune (around 25,000 km), known as "sub...
Artificial greenhouse gases may indicate alien terraforming
Jun 26, 2024 (SPX)
A terraformed planet is one that has been artificially altered to be suitable for life. According to the study, these gases could be detected even at low concen...
Hydrothermal Vents on Ocean Worlds Could Support Life, UC Santa Cruz Study Finds
Jun 25, 2024 (SPX)
Ocean worlds are planets and moons with liquid oceans, often under ice or within their rocky interiors. Some of Jupiter's and Saturn's moons are considered ocea...
Iron meteorites hint that our infant solar system was more doughnut than dartboard
Jun 21, 2024 (SPX)
Fortunately, space has dropped a few clues - fragments of objects that formed early in solar system history and plunged through Earth's atmosphere, called meteo...
Discovery of Four Mini-Neptunes Around Red Dwarfs
Jun 17, 2024 (SPX)
Planets between the size of Earth and Uranus/Neptune, termed mini-Neptunes, do not exist in our Solar System but are common elsewhere. They are potential candid...
Watery Planets Orbiting Dead Stars Could Be Good Candidates for Life Study
Jun 17, 2024 (SPX)
The challenge lies in detecting the shadow of a planet against a former star that has shrunk significantly and ensuring that it has maintained its water oceans ...
Laser tests reveal new insights into key mineral for super-Earths
Jun 13, 2024 (SPX)
High-energy laser experiments-which subjected tiny crystals of the mineral to the type of heat and pressure found deep inside a rocky planet's mantle-suggest th...
NASA and ESA explore habitability of exoplanets with Chandra and XMM-Newton
Jun 13, 2024 (SPX)
Researchers examined stars close enough to Earth for future telescopes to capture images of planets in their habitable zones, where liquid water could exist. Wh...
NASA satellite detects smaller object in black hole pair for the first time
Jun 12, 2024 (SPX)
In 2021, NASA's exoplanet-hunting satellite was pointed towards the galaxy OJ 287 to help astronomers confirm the theory initially proposed by researchers at th...
Small, cool and sulfurous exoplanet may help write recipe for planetary formation
Jun 11, 2024 (SPX)
Astronomers discovered the planet, GJ 3470 b, in 2012 when the planet's shadow crossed the star it orbits. GJ 3470 b is located in the constellation Cancer and ...
Clemson grad student's study sheds light on planet formation in infant stars
Jun 11, 2024 (SPX)
But the advent of more powerful ground-based telescopes and new space-based observatories since then has led to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets, or pla...
Webb Telescope Reveals Asteroid Collision In Neighboring Star System
Jun 11, 2024 (SPX)
The observations spotlight the volatile processes that shape star systems like our own, offering a unique glimpse into the primordial stages of planetary format...
ISS 90th spacewalk will retreive microorganisms from exterior of space station
Jun 11, 2024 (UPI)
Their live-streamed spacewalk also will include some repairs. NASA plans to steam "U.S. Spacewalk 90," which is estimated to start at 8 a.m. EDT on Thursday and...
Planet-forming Disks Around Low-mass Stars Show Unique Characteristics
Jun 07, 2024 (SPX)
"These observations are not possible from Earth because the relevant gas emissions are absorbed by its atmosphere," explained lead author Aditya Arabhavi of the...
Newly Discovered Planet Retains Atmosphere Despite Star's Intense Radiation
Jun 06, 2024 (SPX)
Nicknamed "Phoenix," the newly discovered planet shows the vast diversity of solar systems and the complexity of planetary evolution, especially at the end of s...
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