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Life in the smoke of underwater volcanoes

Mar 13, 2023 (SPX)

These plumes rise hundreds of meters off the seafloor and disperse thousands of kilometers away from their source. Hydrothermal plumes might seem like a precari...

DLR Gottingen helps in the search for signs of life in space

Mar 13, 2023 (SPX)

All space missions that search for traces of life face the same problem: the possibility of contaminating the exploration site through propulsion exhaust. "Prop...

Distant star TOI-700 has two potentially habitable planets

Mar 13, 2023 (SPX)

You've probably heard about some of the many other exoplanet discoveries in recent years. In fact, TOI-700 e is one of two potentially habitable planets just in...

Rutgers scientists identify substance that may have sparked life on earth

Mar 13, 2023 (SPX)

The research, published in Science Advances, has important implications in the search for extraterrestrial life because it gives researchers a new clue to look ...

CHEOPS mission extended

Mar 10, 2023 (SPX)

Unlike previous satellites designed to find new exoplanets - planets orbiting stars other than our Sun - by observing tens of thousands of stars simultaneously,...

Astronomers find missing link for water in the Solar System

Mar 09, 2023 (SPX)

"We can now trace the origins of water in our Solar System to before the formation of the Sun," says John J. Tobin, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronom...

Can artificial intelligence help find life on Mars or icy worlds?

Mar 07, 2023 (SPX)

Then they trained a machine learning model to recognize the patterns and rules associated with their distributions so it could learn to predict and find those s...

Humanity's quest to discover the origins of life

Mar 06, 2023 (SPX)

Within a generation, scientists have now discovered more than 5,000 exoplanets and predict the potential existence of trillions more in the Milky Way galaxy alo...

Removing traces of life in lab helps NASA scientists study its origins

Mar 01, 2023 (JPL)

In the Origins and Habitability Lab at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, you can find a world in a test tube - specifically, a simplified simulation of early Ea...

To new worlds with quantitative spectroscopy

Mar 01, 2023 (SPX)

Stars tell stories about themselves, and sometimes about their undiscovered planets. Their language is light; it reveals many physical properties of a star: its...

Nanosatellite shows the way to RNA medicine of the future

Feb 28, 2023 (SPX)

Inspired by natural RNA machines, researchers at the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) have developed a method called "RNA origami", which makes it p...

Forbidden planet orbiting small star challenges gas giant formation theories

Feb 23, 2023 (SPX)

Smaller and cooler than our Sun, M dwarfs are the most common stars in our Milky Way galaxy. Due to their small size, these stars tend to be about half as hot a...

CARMENES project boosts the number of known planets in the solar neighbourhood

Feb 23, 2023 (SPX)

The CARMENES project has just published data from about 20,000 observations taken between 2016 and 2020 for a sample of 362 nearby cool stars. The project is fi...

Very Large Telescope captures direct images of bright exoplanet

Feb 20, 2023 (UPI)

The European Southern Observatory released the photographs Monday, showing what the observatory called the lightest ever exoplanet. The planet orbits the young ...

Does ice in the Universe contain the molecules making up the building blocks of life in planetary systems?

Feb 17, 2023 (SPX)

The dust grains grow in size when being a part of the discs of gas and dust forming around young stars. This means that the researchers could study many of the ...

Team Aims To Find Earth 2.0

Feb 15, 2023 (SPX)

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers are leading a team in pursuit of an idea that could make it possible to find nearby, habitable, Earth-like planets ...

Four classes of planetary systems

Feb 15, 2023 (SPX)

In our solar system, everything seems to be in order: The smaller rocky planets, such as Venus, Earth or Mars, orbit relatively close to our star. The large gas...

New models shed light on life's origin

Feb 13, 2023 (SPX)

"It is reasonable to suspect that life could have started differently-or not at all-if the early chemical characteristics of our planet were different," says Du...

Researchers focus AI on finding exoplanets

Feb 08, 2023 (SPX)

"One of the novel things about this is analyzing environments where planets are still forming," said Jason Terry, doctoral student in the UGA Franklin College o...

A nearby potentially habitable Earth-mass exoplanet

Feb 03, 2023 (SPX)

One of the most exciting goals of exoplanet research is to find a habitable world similar to Earth. However, of the more than 5000 exoplanets astronomers have d...