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Broccoli gas: A better way to find life in space
Oct 13, 2022 (SPX)
These types of gases are made when organisms add a carbon and three hydrogen atoms to an undesirable chemical element. This process, called methylation, can tur...
JPL developing more tools to help search for life in deep space
Oct 07, 2022 (JPL)
But looking for evidence of life in a frigid sea hundreds of millions of miles away poses tremendous challenges. The science equipment used must be exquisitely ...
The fountain of life: Water droplets hold the secret ingredient for building life
Oct 06, 2022 (SPX)
"This is essentially the chemistry behind the origin of life," said Graham Cooks, the Henry Bohn Hass Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry in Purdue'...
Laughing gas in space could mean life
Oct 05, 2022 (SPX)
Chemical compounds in a planet's atmosphere that could indicate life, called biosignatures, typically include gases found in abundance in Earth's atmosphere tod...
A day at the beach for life on other worlds
Oct 05, 2022 (SPX)
The "habitable zone" is defined as the range of orbits around a star where the temperature would be right for an exoplanet to have liquid water on its surface. ...
Synthetic lava in the lab aids exoplanet exploration
Sep 28, 2022 (SPX)
"We have synthesized compositions that are representative of possible exoplanet surfaces that combine star metallicity data, thermodynamic modeling, and laborat...
New theory concludes that the origin of life on Earth-like planets is likely
Sep 27, 2022 (SPX)
A widely accepted argument from Australian-born astrophysicist Brandon Carter argues that the selection effect of our own existence puts constraints on our obse...
ExoClock counts down Ariel exoplanet targets
Sep 25, 2022 (SPX)
"The ethos of ExoClock can be described in three key words: inclusive, interactive, and integrated. It is open to everyone and accepts contributions from amateu...
Big planets get a head start in pancake-thin nurseries
Sep 25, 2022 (SPX)
"Planets only have a limited opportunity to form before the disc of gas and dust, their nursery, is dissipated by radiation from their parent star. The initial ...
Blanket-covered single-molecules: a breakthrough in revealing the origin of life
Sep 22, 2022 (SPX)
The research team led by Professor Kyoung-Duck Park and PhD candidate Mingu Kang (Department of Physics) at POSTECH, in collaboration with Professor Yung Doug S...
Star Light Simulator illuminates the search for life around the Milky Way's most common stars
Sep 22, 2022 (SPX)
Most stars in our Milky Way are the smallest type of hydrogen-burning star, known as red M-dwarfs. They are cooler and less luminous than our Sun and primarily ...
Super-Earths are bigger, more common and more habitable than Earth itself
Sep 21, 2022 (The Conversation)
One planet is 30% larger than Earth and orbits its star in less than three days. The other is 70% larger than the Earth and might host a deep ocean. These two e...
SwRI scientist helps identify new evidence for habitability in Enceladus's ocean
Sep 21, 2022 (SPX)
"Enceladus is one of the prime targets in humanity's search for life in our solar system," said Glein, a leading expert in extraterrestrial oceanography. He is ...
New exoplanet detection program for citizen scientists
Sep 21, 2022 (SPX)
Most known exoplanets have been detected using the transit method, most notably by the Kepler Mission and now TESS. A transit is when a planet passes between it...
Researchers pioneer new technique that could help determine habitability of planets
Sep 18, 2022 (SPX)
About once a day, a magnetic explosion on the sun will send a chunk of the corona hurtling into interplanetary space. This is called a coronal mass ejection (CM...
Quest to uncover intricacies of exoplanet atmospheres reaches important milestone
Sep 18, 2022 (SPX)
An international team, including astrophysicists from the University of Exeter, is taking lessons and techniques learned from Earth climate science to pave the ...
Twisted magnetic fields can reveal how protobinary systems, Tatooine planets form
Sep 18, 2022 (SPX)
Circumbinary planets - planets that orbit around two stars, like the fictional Star Wars planet Tatooine and its two suns - exist in the Universe, and are somet...
Study: Astronomers risk misinterpreting planetary signals in James Webb data
Sep 16, 2022 (SPX)
In addition to seeing farther into the universe than ever before, JWST will capture the most comprehensive view of objects in our own galaxy - namely, some of t...
It's a planet: new evidence of baby planet in the making
Sep 15, 2022 (SPX)
Now, astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have developed a new way to detect these elusive newborn planets - and with it, "smoki...
A thousand days of CHEOPS
Sep 12, 2022 (SPX)
Since its launch from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, on December 18th, 2019, the CHEOPS telescope in Earth's orbit has demonstrated its functionality and ...
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