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ESA targets Enceladus in ambitious mission to Saturn
Mar 27, 2024 (SPX)
A team of planetary scientists and engineers, tasked with evaluating the scientific and technical feasibility of such a mission, highlighted Enceladus's unique ...
Unveiling hydrogen's role in life's early energy mechanisms
Mar 25, 2024 (SPX)
Hydrothermal vents, releasing hydrogen in the deep sea, provided the early Earth's life forms with the necessary energy through the chemical reaction of hydroge...
Life Detection on Ice Moons Could Be Within Reach, New Study Shows
Mar 22, 2024 (SPX)
Lead author Fabian Klenner, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington's Department of Earth and Space Sciences, expressed optimism about the pot...
Loathed by scientists, loved by nature: sulfur and the origin of life
Mar 14, 2024 (SPX)
But what did early Earth actually look like? This question has been the subject of intense scientific research for decades. A publication led by Sukrit Ranjan, ...
Webb finds ethanol, other icy ingredients for making planets
Mar 14, 2024 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers used Webb's MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) to identify a variety of icy compounds made up of complex organic molecules like...
Interstellar signal linked to aliens was actually just a truck
Mar 11, 2024 (SPX)
"The signal changed directions over time, exactly matching a road that runs past the seismometer," said Benjamin Fernando, a planetary seismologist at Johns Hop...
Space research sheds new light on formation of planets
Mar 07, 2024 (SPX)
The research represents one of the largest surveys ever of planet-forming discs, providing astronomers with a wealth of data and a treasure trove of imagery and...
More Planets than Stars: Kepler's Legacy
Mar 07, 2024 (SPX)
Astronomers had assumed, but still had not confirmed, the existence of exoplanets when the mission concept that would become Kepler was first suggested in 1983....
JWST images dispersing gas in a planet-forming disk for first time
Mar 05, 2024 (SPX)
At the heart of this discovery lies the observation of TCha, a star still in its infancy compared to our Sun, surrounded by a protoplanetary disk notable for it...
Bayesian network analysis sheds light on sci-fi and real-world exoplanet representation
Mar 05, 2024 (SPX)
Led by Emma Johanna Puranen, with contributions from Emily Finer, V Anne Smith, and IWF's Director Christiane Helling, the study analyzed a corpus of 142 scienc...
Scripps Research scientists reveal how first cells could have formed on Earth
Mar 04, 2024 (SPX)
Now, Scripps Research scientists have discovered one plausible pathway for how protocells may have first formed and chemically progressed to allow for a diversi...
James Webb Telescope Unveils Role of Massive Stars in Planet Formation
Mar 01, 2024 (SPX)
Planetary systems, including our own Solar System, are thought to form from protoplanetary disks of dust and gas that orbit young stars. These disks provide the...
Astronomers reveal a new link between water and planet formation
Mar 01, 2024 (SPX)
Water is a key ingredient for life on Earth and is also thought to play a significant role in planet formation, yet, until now, astronomers have never been able...
Ice shell thickness reveals water temp on ocean worlds
Mar 01, 2024 (SPX)
Available data showing ice thickness variation already allows a prediction for the upper ocean of Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, and a NASA mission's planned orbi...
Hold on to your atmospheres: how planet size affects atmospheric escape
Feb 29, 2024 (SPX)
Don't panic, but Earth is slowly losing its atmosphere - very slowly, at a rate so small that the Sun will balloon into a red giant and engulf our planet long b...
CUTE's groundbreaking design paves the way for future small-scale space missions
Feb 28, 2024 (SPX)
At the heart of CUTE's mission is the study of atmospheric escape, a crucial process that influences the evolution and composition of planets. By focusing on cl...
Earth as a test object
Feb 28, 2024 (SPX)
With a network of five satellites, the international LIFE initiative led by ETH Zurich hopes to one day detect traces of life on exoplanets. It aims to undertak...
Scientists Unveil Free-Floating Planetary Giants in the Orion Nebula
Feb 15, 2024 (SPX)
The discovery was made possible through observations conducted with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) at the U.S. National Science Foundation National R...
Passing Stars Altered Orbital Changes in Earth, Other Planets
Feb 15, 2024 (SPX)
"Perturbations - a minor deviation in the course of a celestial body, caused by the gravitational attraction of a neighboring body - from passing stars alter th...
SETI Institute Utilizes Advanced Ellipsoid Technique in Quest for Extraterrestrial Signals
Feb 13, 2024 (SPX)
The SETI Ellipsoid strategy is predicated on the hypothesis that extraterrestrial civilizations, upon observing significant galactic events such as supernova 19...
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