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To find a planet, look for the signatures of planet formation
Jun 16, 2022 (SPX)
Evan Rich, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan, suggests that instead of looking for individual planets forming, astronomers might have bett...
Dead star caught ripping up planetary system
Jun 16, 2022 (SPX)
Archival data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other NASA observatories were essential in diagnosing this case of cosmic cannibalism. The findings help de...
Astronomers discover a multiplanet system nearby
Jun 16, 2022 (SPX)
At the heart of the system lies a small and cool M-dwarf star, named HD 260655, and astronomers have found that it hosts at least two terrestrial, Earth-sized p...
New clues suggest how Hot Jupiters form
Jun 14, 2022 (SPX)
Lead author Jacob Hamer, a PhD student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, will present the fin...
Sun-like star identified in the region where the Wow! Signal originated
Jun 14, 2022 (SPX)
He identified a Sun-like star designated 2MASS 19281982-2640123, about 1,800 light-years away, that has a temperature, diameter and luminosity almost identical ...
Asteroid samples contain 'clues to origin of life': Japan scientists
Jun 10, 2022 (AFP)
Pristine material from the asteroid Ryugu was brought back to Earth in 2020 after a six-year mission to the celestial body around 300 million kilometres away. B...
Colossal Collisions Linked to Solar System Science
Jun 08, 2022 (SPX)
The results come from a long observation with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory of Abell 2146, a pair of colliding galaxy clusters located about 2.8 billion ligh...
Colossal collisions linked to solar system science
Jun 08, 2022 (SPX)
The results come from a long observation with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory of Abell 2146, a pair of colliding galaxy clusters located about 2.8 billion ligh...
Abell 2146: Colossal Collisions Linked to Solar System Science
Jun 08, 2022 (SPX)
The results come from a long observation with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory of Abell 2146, a pair of colliding galaxy clusters located about 2.8 billion ligh...
Geology from 50 light-years away
Jun 07, 2022 (SPX)
Among the investigations planned for the first year are studies of two hot exoplanets classified as "super-Earths" for their size and rocky composition: the lav...
Close encounter more than 10,000 years ago stirred up spirals in accretion disk
Jun 03, 2022 (SPX)
The group's research shows that this disk was perturbed by close encounter with a nearby object, thus leading to the formation of the spiral arms. This finding ...
Plato's cave: vacuum test for exoplanet detection
Jun 02, 2022 (ESA)
There are tasks in space where multiple smaller imagers are better than one big equivalent. ESA PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars mission, Plato, is ...
Extraterrestrial civilizations may colonize the Galaxy even if they don't have starships
May 27, 2022 (SPX)
For example, extraterrestrial civilizations may leave their home planetary systems when they face existential threats. One of the ways to do so is to ride free-...
Why haven't we discovered co-orbital exoplanets? Could tides offer a possible answer?
May 27, 2022 (SPX)
In a new study published in Icarus by Anthony Dobrovolskis, SETI Institute and Jack Lissauer, NASA Ames Research Center, the authors theorize that some Trojan e...
Unistellar and SETI Institute expand Worldwide Citizen-Science Astronomy Network
May 26, 2022 (SPX)
A pioneer of New Astronomy, Unistellar is the company behind a new category of telescopes, the eVscopes, the world's most powerful and simple-to-operate smart t...
AI reveals unsuspected math underlying search for exoplanets
May 25, 2022 (SPX)
But AI, also called machine learning, can reveal something deeper, University of California, Berkeley, astronomers found: unsuspected connections hidden in the ...
Planets of binary stars as possible homes for alien life
May 24, 2022 (SPX)
Since the only known planet with life, the Earth, orbits the Sun, planetary systems around stars of similar size are obvious targets for astronomers trying to l...
The search for how life on Earth transformed from simple to complex
May 18, 2022 (SPX)
Announced by NASA this week, a new collaboration of astrobiology researchers across the country working together under a Research Coordination Network called LI...
Seeing through the fog-pinpointing young stars and their protoplanetary disks
May 18, 2022 (SPX)
But the hearts of these clouds are often breeding grounds for young stars and planets, the perfect places to try to figure out how celestial bodies form-assumin...
The origin of life: A paradigm shift
May 13, 2022 (SPX)
Investigating the question as to how life could emerge long ago on the early Earth is one of the most fascinating challenges for science. Which conditions must ...
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