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Two nearby exoplanets might be habitable
Feb 01, 2023 (JPL)
Key facts: Whether red-dwarf stars are likely to host habitable worlds is a subject of scientific debate. On the minus side, these stars - smaller, cooler, but ...
Will machine learning help us find extraterrestrial life
Jan 31, 2023 (SPX)
Now, research published in Nature Astronomy and led by an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto, Peter Ma, along with researchers from the SETI Ins...
Watch distant worlds dance around their sun
Jan 31, 2023 (SPX)
Using observations collected over the past 12 years, Northwestern University astrophysicist Jason Wang has assembled a stunning time lapse video of the family o...
AI joins search for ET
Jan 31, 2023 (SPX)
The research, led by University of Toronto undergraduate student Peter Ma, who began working with the Breakthrough Listen team while still in high school, ident...
Webb Telescope identifies origins of icy building blocks of life
Jan 25, 2023 (SPX)
In a new study, an international research team, with the participation of a researcher from the University of Bern and the National Centre of Competence in Rese...
Rare opportunity to study short-lived volcanic island reveals sulfur-metabolizing microbes
Jan 23, 2023 (SPX)
"These types of volcanic eruptions happen all over the world, but they don't usually produce islands. We had an incredibly unique opportunity," said Nick Dragon...
New small laser device can help detect signs of life on other planets
Jan 17, 2023 (SPX)
A University of Maryland-led team developed a new instrument specifically tailored to the needs of NASA space missions. Their mini laser-sourced analyzer is sig...
How do rocky planets really form
Jan 13, 2023 (SPX)
"As our observations of exoplanets have grown over the past decade, it has become clear that the standard theory of planet formation needs to be revised, starti...
NASA's Webb confirms its first exoplanet
Jan 12, 2023 (SPX)
The team chose to observe this target with Webb after carefully reviewing targets of interest from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which hi...
Gaia helps discover directly imaged planet undergoing nuclear fusion
Jan 11, 2023 (SPX)
An international team of scientists, led by Professor Sasha Hinkley at the University of Exeter, have detected a new exoplanet orbiting the star HD206893 - foun...
TESS discovers planetary system's second Earth-size world
Jan 11, 2023 (SPX)
Astronomers previously discovered three planets in this system, called TOI 700 b, c, and d. Planet d also orbits in the habitable zone. But scientists needed an...
Distant star's dimming was likely a 'dusty' companion getting in the way, astronomers say
Jan 11, 2023 (SPX)
As Tzanidakis will report on Jan. 10 at the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle, follow-up analyses indicated that Gaia17bpp itself wa...
NASA wants you to help study planets around other stars
Jan 11, 2023 (JPL)
This is where Exoplanet Watch comes in. Participants in the program can use their own telescopes to detect planets outside our solar system, or they can look fo...
Model-Independent Method to weigh protoplanetary disks
Jan 11, 2023 (SPX)
Planets form in protoplanetary disks of gas and dust around young stars. Scientists study protoplanetary disks by looking at their spectra, the wavelengths of r...
NASA scientists study life origins by simulating a cosmic evolution
Jan 11, 2023 (SPX)
But if so, were amino acids produced inside asteroids or comets? Or did life's raw ingredients come intact from the interstellar molecular cloud of ice, gas, an...
Astronomers use 'little hurricanes' to weigh and date planets around young stars
Jan 09, 2023 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Institute for Advanced Study have developed a technique, which uses observations of these 'hurricanes' by t...
What it would take to discover life on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus
Dec 28, 2022 (SPX)
When Enceladus was initially surveyed in 1980 by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, it looked like a small, not overly exciting "snowball" in the sky. Later, between ...
Assembly begins on NASA's next tool to study exoplanets
Dec 22, 2022 (SPX)
The science instrument will block the light from each distant star it observes so that scientists can better see the planets around the star, and it will demons...
Kepler's first exoplanet is spiraling toward its doom
Dec 20, 2022 (SPX)
The discovery offers new insights into the slow process of planetary orbital decay by providing the first look at a solar system this late in its life cycle. De...
Two exoplanets may be mostly water, Hubble and Spitzer find
Dec 18, 2022 (SPX)
The team, led by Caroline Piaulet of the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets at the University of Montreal, published a detailed study of this planeta...
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