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How do collisions of rocks with planets help the planets evolve?
Jul 25, 2022 (SPX)
The planets in our solar system are vastly different although they all formed from the same cloud of gas and dust around a star - our sun. Why is this? Associat...
Lava caves of Hawaii Island contain thousands of unknown bacterial species
Jul 25, 2022 (SPX)
Surprisingly, the results revealed that a group of bacteria called Chloroflexi are often 'hub' species, meaning that they are connected with many other species ...
A New Method to Detect Exoplanets
Jul 21, 2022 (SPX)
CVs are binary star systems in which the two stars are in extremely close proximity to each other; so close that the less massive object transfers mass to the m...
Rocking shadows in protoplanetary discs
Jul 17, 2022 (SPX)
Stars are born when a large cloud of gas and dust collapses in on itself. The leftover material that doesn't make it into the star ends up circling around it, n...
To search for alien life, astronomers will look for clues in the atmospheres of distant planets
Jul 15, 2022 (The Conversation)
We are two scientists who study exoplanets and astrobiology. Thanks in large part to next-generation telescopes like James Webb, researchers like us will soon b...
Webb begins hunt for the first stars and habitable worlds
Jul 14, 2022 (AFP)
Here is a look at two early projects that will take advantage of the orbiting observatory's powerful instruments. - The first stars and galaxies - One of the gr...
Undead planets: the unusual conditions of the first exoplanet detection
Jul 13, 2022 (SPX)
The processes that cause planets to form, and survive, around pulsars are currently unknown. A survey of 800 pulsars followed by the Jodrell Bank Observatory ov...
The life puzzle: the location of land on a planet can affect its habitability
Jul 12, 2022 (SPX)
Many planets are tidally locked to their stars such that one side of the planet is always facing away (much like how the far side of the Moon always faces away ...
NASA's Webb reveals steamy atmosphere of distant planet in detail
Jul 12, 2022 (SPX)
The observation, which reveals the presence of specific gas molecules based on tiny decreases in the brightness of precise colors of light, is the most detailed...
Building blocks for RNA-based life abound at center of our galaxy
Jul 11, 2022 (SPX)
Dr Victor M. Rivilla, a researcher at the Center for Astrobiology of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the National Institute of Aerospace Techno...
NASA Helps Decipher How Some Distant Planets Have Clouds of Sand
Jul 11, 2022 (JPL)
Most clouds on Earth are made of water, but beyond our planet they come in many chemical varieties. The top of Jupiter's atmosphere, for example, is blanketed i...
Could we eavesdrop on communications that pass through our solar system
Jul 07, 2022 (SPX)
A paper describing the technique - explored as part of a graduate course at Penn State covering the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) - has been a...
NASA Rockets Launch from Australia to Seek Habitable Star Conditions
Jul 07, 2022 (SPX)
The rocket carried the science instrument to an altitude of 151miles (243 km) before descending by parachute and landing southwest of the launch site. Recovery ...
AI experts called on to join the hunt for exoplanets
Jul 01, 2022 (SPX)
The Ariel Data Challenge 2022, which launches on 30 June, is inviting AI and machine learning experts from industry and academia to help astronomers understand ...
Life in the Earth's interior as productive as in some ocean waters
Jun 30, 2022 (SPX)
However, genetic analyses of microorganisms in groundwater have indicated that even here many microorganisms are capable of primary production. In the absence o...
Long-term liquid water also on non-Earth-like planets
Jun 29, 2022 (SPX)
Life on Earth began in the oceans. In the search for life on other planets, the potential for liquid water is therefore a key ingredient. To find it, scientists...
Ancient microbes may help us find extraterrestrial life forms
Jun 28, 2022 (SPX)
The earliest living things, including bacteria and single-celled organisms called archaea, inhabited a primarily oceanic planet without an ozone layer to protec...
A novel crystal structure sheds light on the dynamics of extrasolar planets
Jun 24, 2022 (SPX)
More than 5,000 extrasolar planets have been discovered since 1992. These planets are large astronomical bodies that occur outside our solar system and orbit st...
UK Government takes leading role in new space telescope to explore exoplanets
Jun 21, 2022 (SPX)
It is the first space mission dedicated to this analysis and will provide a step-change in our understanding of what exoplanets are made of, how they were forme...
Did a giant radio telescope in China just discover aliens? Not so FAST
Jun 18, 2022 (The Conversation)
An article reporting the signal was posted on the website of China's state-backed Science and Technology Daily newspaper, but was later removed. So have astrono...
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