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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 ...
Could a refined space weather model help scientists find life elsewhere
Mar 31, 2022 (SPX)
Exoplanets are what planets are called when they orbit stars outside our own solar system, and the effort to winnow out those that could harbor life has been in...
Methane could be the first detectable indication of life beyond Earth
Mar 29, 2022 (SPX)
This is especially noteworthy because methane is one of the few potential signs of life, or "biosignatures," that could be readily detectable with the James Web...
New insight into the possible origins of life
Mar 19, 2022 (SPX)
Life has many big questions, not least being where did we come from? Maybe you've seen the T-shirts with pictures going from ape to human (to tired office worke...
Scientists unlock mystery rooted in the deepest past of evolution
Mar 19, 2022 (SPX)
It's a puzzle rooted in the deepest past. But now, the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Medicine and Yale University colleagues have collaborated to provide a ...
New microscopic organisms found in deep sea trench baffle Chile scientists
Mar 18, 2022 (AFP)
The January submarine expedition dove into the Atacama Trench, created by the meeting of two tectonic plates in the eastern Pacific Ocean. "We pulled off the fe...
Combing the cosmos: New color catalog aids hunt for life on frozen worlds
Mar 17, 2022 (SPX)
As ground-based and space telescopes get larger and can probe the atmosphere of rocky exoplanets, astronomers need a color-coded guide to compare them and their...
Roman Telescope could help find other Earths by surveying space dust
Mar 17, 2022 (SPX)
In our own solar system, zodiacal dust - small rocky grains largely left behind by colliding asteroids and crumbling comets - spans from near the Sun to the ast...
Imagining an Earthly neighbor
Mar 11, 2022 (SPX)
The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in Chile, will be set up to directly image rocky exoplanets around nearby Sun-like stars by th...
Seafloor fertilizer factory helped breathe life into Earth
Mar 11, 2022 (SPX)
The first major rise in oxygen levels on the Earth took place roughly 2.4 to 2.2 billion years ago during the early stage of the Great Oxidation Event. Scientis...
The start of the birth of planets in a binary star system observed
Mar 11, 2022 (SPX)
Bringing together three decades of study, an international group of scientists have observed a pair of stars orbiting each other, to reveal that these stars are...
Astronomers discover largest molecule yet in a planet-forming disc
Mar 09, 2022 (SPX)
"From these results, we can learn more about the origin of life on our planet and therefore get a better idea of the potential for life in other planetary syste...
Expedition to highest active volcano unearths clues about life on other worlds
Mar 09, 2022 (SPX)
The extreme environment resembles something from a sci-fi film or another planet, but it's right here on Earth, on the flanks of the world's highest active volc...
Microscopic view on asteroid collisions could help us understand planet formation
Mar 07, 2022 (SPX)
The research, which was led by the University of Cambridge, combined dating and microscopic analysis of the Chelyabinsk meteorite - which fell to Earth and hit ...
Ice-free in icy worlds
Mar 04, 2022 (SPX)
The Antarctic scallop "Adamussium colbecki" resists this, as chemist Konrad Meister knows. Meister is a professor at the University of Alaska and heads a resear...
New astrobiology research predicts life 'as we don't know it'
Mar 02, 2022 (SPX)
In new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a team of scientists has tackled this restriction by identifying univer...
What's happening in the depths of distant worlds?
Mar 02, 2022 (SPX)
New work led by Carnegie's Earth and Planets Laboratory uses lab-based mimicry to reveal a new crystal structure that has major implications for our understandi...
Roman Space Telescope could snap first image of a Jupiter-like world
Feb 25, 2022 (SPX)
Roman will use its Coronagraph Instrument - a system of masks, prisms, detectors, and even self-flexing mirrors built to block out the glare from distant stars ...
Day of Discovery: 7 Earth-Size Planets
Feb 23, 2022 (JPL)
Using telescopes on the ground and in space, scientists revealed one of the most unusual planetary systems yet found beyond our Sun and opened the tantalizing q...
'Tatooine-like' exoplanet spotted by ground-based telescope
Feb 23, 2022 (SPX)
The planet, called Kepler-16b, has so far only been seen using the Kepler space telescope. It orbits around two stars, with the two orbits also orbiting one ano...
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