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Lab made cosmic dust experiment reveals paths to life chemistry
Feb 06, 2026 (SPX)
Losurdo and her supervisor, Professor David McKenzie, filled evacuated glass tubes with nitrogen, carbon dioxide and acetylene before applying around 10,000 vol...
Survey of 80 near Earth asteroids sharpens view of their origins and risks
Feb 06, 2026 (SPX)
An international team led by researchers at the Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has completed a one year observing campaign to better ...
Icy cycles may have driven early protocell evolution
Jan 26, 2026 (SPX)
Researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science Tokyo and collaborators investigated how mixed lipid membranes respond to rep...
Metal rich winds detected in giant dusty cloud around distant star
Jan 26, 2026 (SPX)
The event began in September 2024 when the Sun-like star J0705+0612, located about 3000 light years away, abruptly became about 40 times dimmer than normal and ...
ALMA survey maps turbulent youth of distant planetary systems
Jan 21, 2026 (SPX)
Debris discs mark a collision-dominated era when leftover planetesimals and minor bodies grind themselves down into dust through repeated impacts. In our own So...
Cosmic dust chemistry forges peptide building blocks in deep space
Jan 21, 2026 (SPX)
In a laboratory at Aarhus University and at the HUN-REN Atomki facility in Hungary, researchers Sergio Ioppolo and Alfred Thomas Hopkinson reproduced the extrem...
Hidden magma oceans could shield rocky exoplanets from harmful radiation
Jan 19, 2026 (SPX)
Earth's magnetic field is generated by movement in its liquid iron outer core - a process known as a dynamo - but larger rocky worlds like super-earths might ha...
Frozen hydrogen cyanide crystals may have helped spark early chemistry for life
Jan 15, 2026 (SPX)
In a study reported in the journal ACS Central Science, researchers used computer simulations to investigate how frozen hydrogen cyanide behaves at the molecula...
Scientist wins 'Environment Nobel' for shedding light on hidden fungal networks
Jan 14, 2026 (AFP)
Yet until recently, these "mycorrhizal networks" were greatly underestimated: seen as merely helpful companions to plants rather than one of Earth's vital circu...
Pandora exoplanet mission checks in after launch
Jan 13, 2026 (SPX)
The spacecraft rode to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East, sharing the flight with the Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat, kn...
Mixed crystal phase of superionic water mapped inside giant planets
Jan 13, 2026 (SPX)
Because this phase can efficiently carry electrical currents, researchers link superionic water to the generation of the unusual magnetic fields of ice giants s...
Berkeley Scientists set to home in on 100 signals from Seti at Home
Jan 12, 2026 (SPX)
The project - called SETI@home, after the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) - generated a loyal following eager to participate in one of the most ...
Puffy young exoplanets reveal origin of super Earths
Jan 08, 2026 (SPX)
Over ten years, researchers combined observations from ground and space telescopes to track when each planet crossed the face of V1298 Tau. By measuring small d...
Creating hallucination-free, psychedelic-like molecules by shining light on life's basic building blocks
Jan 08, 2026 (SPX)
The research was recently published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. "The question that we were trying to answer was, 'Is there whole new class ...
M dwarf plasma torus offers window into space weather and planetary habitability
Jan 08, 2026 (SPX)
Bouma noted that stars affect their planets through both light and streams of particles such as stellar winds and magnetic storms, but the particle component re...
Giant amoeba virus ushikuvirus sheds light on how complex cells evolved
Jan 08, 2026 (SPX)
In work published online on November 24, 2025, in the Journal of Virology, the team reports the discovery of ushikuvirus, a newly isolated giant virus named aft...
NASA selects industry partners to mature Habitable Worlds Observatory technologies
Jan 07, 2026 (SPX)
The observatory is also expected to support a broad astrophysics program and contribute to planning for future human exploration of Mars, elsewhere in the solar...
K dwarf survey maps stellar neighborhood for habitable worlds
Jan 07, 2026 (SPX)
The project delivers the first comprehensive spectroscopic census of thousands of the Sun's lower-mass K dwarf counterparts within the local solar neighborhood....
We finally know how the most common types of planets are created
Jan 07, 2026 (SPX)
Now we know the answer An international team of astrophysicists from UCLA and elsewhere has witnessed four baby planets in the V1298 Tau system in the process o...
ALMA views giant dusty disk in Gomezs Hamburger with signs of early giant planet formation
Jan 06, 2026 (SPX)
GoHam's disk surrounds a young star and is oriented almost edge-on, allowing a direct view of its vertical structure as the material rotates. ALMA observations ...
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