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Scientists develop method of identifying life on other worlds
Sep 26, 2023 (SPX)
The work was presented to scientists for the first time at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Lyon on Friday 14th July, where it received a positive rec...
New insights into the atmosphere and star of an exoplanet
Sep 26, 2023 (SPX)
Not only does the new research shed light on the nature of TRAPPIST-1 b, the exoplanet orbiting closest to the system's star, it has also shown the importance o...
Turning up gravity for space fungi study
Sep 26, 2023 (ESA)
A team from the Astrobiology team of the State Key Laboratory of Lunar and Planetary Sciences at the Macau University of Science and Technology of Macau - a spe...
New recipes for origin of life may point way to distant, inhabited planets
Sep 20, 2023 (SPX)
Their ingredient list could focus the search for life elsewhere in the universe by pointing out the most likely conditions - planetary versions of mixing techni...
Tiny sea creatures reveal the ancient origins of neurons
Sep 20, 2023 (SPX)
The blob-like and pancake-shaped creatures are so simple that they live without any body parts or organs. These animals, thought to have first appeared on Earth...
Exoplanet with a large iron core adds to puzzle of how planets form
Sep 18, 2023 (SPX)
Elisa Goffo, Ph.D. student at the Physics Department of the University of Turin (Italy) and at the Thuringer Landessternwarte (Germany), together with an intern...
Alleged bodies of 'non-human beings' shown in Mexican Congress
Sep 13, 2023 (AFP)
The purported mummified remains were exhibited in two small display cases on Tuesday -- the first time the Mexican Congress has officially addressed the issue o...
Webb discovers methane, carbon dioxide in atmosphere of K2-18 b
Sep 12, 2023 (SPX)
The first insight into the atmospheric properties of this habitable-zone exoplanet came from observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which prompted fur...
On the road to spotting alien life
Sep 08, 2023 (SPX)
"Before we can design the mission, we need to develop the key technologies as much as possible," says Dimitri Mawet, a member of the Technical Assessment Group ...
Scientists detect and validate the longest-period exoplanet found with TESS
Sep 04, 2023 (SPX)
The research titled, TOI-4600 b and c: Two long-period giant planets orbiting an early K dwarf will be published in a future issue of The Astrophysical Journal ...
New giant planet evidence of possible planetary collisions
Sep 04, 2023 (SPX)
TOI-1853b's mass is almost twice that of any other similar-sized planet known and its density is incredibly high, meaning that it is made up of a larger fractio...
Hot Jupiter blows its top
Sep 04, 2023 (SPX)
The planet called HAT-P-32b is losing so much of its atmospheric helium that the trailing gas tails are among the largest structures yet known of an exoplanet, ...
Thermometer molecule confirmed on exoplanet WASP-31b
Aug 30, 2023 (SPX)
Flagg, a research associate in astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), has used this and other metal hydrides to determine the temperature of cool ...
Newly discovered planet has longest orbit yet detected by the TESS mission
Aug 30, 2023 (SPX)
Astronomers are starting to get a general picture of these planets' formation, evolution, and composition. But the picture is much fuzzier for planets with long...
Accretion disks: How big are they really?
Aug 25, 2023 (SPX)
Nothing can evoke an existential perspective-spiral quite like looking at an image of a galaxy. At first glance, these sublime structures may appear rather sere...
A Jupiter hotter than the Sun
Aug 22, 2023 (SPX)
Now, in a study published in Nature Astronomy, scientists report the discovery of a system consisting of two celestial bodies, located about 1,400 light years a...
Study explains how part of the nucleolus evolved
Aug 22, 2023 (SPX)
MIT biologists have now discovered that a single scaffolding protein is responsible for the formation of one of these condensates, which forms within a cell org...
Size dependence and the collisional dynamics of protoplanetary dust growth
Aug 22, 2023 (SPX)
To explore this phenomenon, Dr. Sota Arakawa, a Young Research Fellow in the Center for Mathematical Science and Advanced Technology at JAMSTEC, collaborated wi...
Watch an exoplanet's 17-year journey around its star
Aug 11, 2023 (SPX)
Constructed from real data, the footage shows Beta Pictoris b - a planet 12 times the mass of Jupiter - sailing around its star in a tilted orbit. The time-laps...
Exoplanet surveyor Ariel passes major milestone
Aug 11, 2023 (ESA)
The Ariel payload will consist of an integrated suite comprising the telescope, the Ariel infrared spectrometer (AIRS), and the Fine Guidance System (FGS) modul...
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