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Researchers reveal the origin story for carbon-12, a building block for life
May 12, 2022 (SPX)
The researchers' fundamental question: "How does the cosmos produce carbon-12?" said James Vary, a professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa State University a...
Planet-forming disks evolve in surprisingly similar ways
May 08, 2022 (SPX)
Some of the most exciting questions in present-day astronomical research are: What do other planetary systems look like? How comparable is the Solar System to o...
Experiments measure freezing point of extraterrestrial oceans to aid search for life
May 05, 2022 (SPX)
The results were recently published in Cell Reports Physical Sciences. "The more a liquid is stable, the more promising it is for habitability," said co-corresp...
SwRI-led team finds younger exoplanets better candidates when looking for other Earths
May 04, 2022 (SPX)
In the past, scientists have focused on planets situated within a star's habitable zone, where it is neither too hot nor too cold for liquid surface water to ex...
Stanford scientists describe a gravity telescope that could image exoplanets
May 04, 2022 (SPX)
To sidestep the physical limitations of telescopes, Stanford University astrophysicists have been working on a new conceptual imaging technique that would be 1,...
Discovery of 30 exocomets in a young planetary system
Apr 29, 2022 (SPX)
These were the first comets ever observed around a star other than the Sun. Now, an international research team headed by Alain Lecavelier des Etangs, CNRS rese...
The instability at the beginning of the solar system
Apr 28, 2022 (SPX)
The research also has implications for how terrestrial planets such as Earth were formed and the possibility that a fifth gas giant lurks 50 billion miles out i...
Origin of complex cells started without oxygen
Apr 28, 2022 (SPX)
But a team led by the universities of Stanford and Exeter say recent advances in the Earth and life sciences challenge this view. Their review says these breakt...
Could the blueprint for life have been generated in asteroids
Apr 27, 2022 (SPX)
All DNA and RNA, which contains the instructions to build and operate every living being on Earth, contains five informational components, called nucleobases. U...
Scientists study microorganisms on Earth to gain insight into life on other planets
Apr 27, 2022 (SPX)
To find these clues, a team of scientists from Arizona State University, who are members of the Group Exploring Organic Processes in Geochemistry led by Everett...
Hydrothermal catering
Apr 26, 2022 (SPX)
As an example, near-coastal hydrothermal systems are present off the Greek island of Milos, which is the study area of the investigating authors. Here the scien...
Hubble observations used to answer key exoplanet questions
Apr 26, 2022 (ESA)
The field of exoplanet science has long since shifted its focus from just detection onto characterisation, although characterisation remains extremely challengi...
Diverse life forms may have evolved earlier than previously thought
Apr 14, 2022 (SPX)
For the study, published in Science Advances, the research team analysed a fist-sized rock from Quebec, Canada, estimated to be between 3.75 and 4.28 billion ye...
A Beacon in the Galaxy: Updated Arecibo Message for Potential FAST and SETI Projects
Apr 08, 2022 (SPX)
The message concludes with digitized images of the human form, along with an invitation for any receiving intelligences to respond. Calculation of the optimal t...
Hubble probes extreme weather on ultra-hot Jovian exoplanets
Apr 07, 2022 (SPX)
In two new papers, teams of Hubble astronomers are reporting on bizarre weather conditions on these sizzling worlds. It's raining vaporized rock on one planet, ...
Cosmic SETI ready to stream data for technosignature research from Jansky VLA
Apr 06, 2022 (SPX)
COSMIC is a collaboration between the SETI Institute and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), which operates the VLA, to bring a state-of-the-art se...
Hubble finds a planet forming in an unconventional way
Apr 05, 2022 (SPX)
The new world under construction is embedded in a protoplanetary disk of dust and gas with distinct spiral structure swirling around surrounding a young star th...
Prenatal protoplanet upends planet formation models
Apr 05, 2022 (SPX)
It's location and the surrounding patterns of matter suggest that an alternative method of planet formation may be at work. This discovery could help to explain...
NASA simulator helps to shed light on mysteries of Solar System
Apr 04, 2022 (SPX)
In the study now published in the Atmosphere scientific journal, researchers from the Instituto de Astrofisica e Ciencias do Espaco (Faculty of Sciences of the ...
Kepler telescope delivers new planetary discovery from the grave
Apr 04, 2022 (SPX)
The exoplanet, K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, is almost identical to Jupiter in terms of its mass and its distance from its sun was discovered using data obtained in 2016 ...
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