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Can a planet have a mind of its own?
Feb 18, 2022 (SPX)
Take, for example, plants: plants 'invented' a way of undergoing photosynthesis to enhance their own survival, but in so doing, released oxygen that changed the...
Researchers find evidence for existence of uneven circumstellar matter based on TESS data
Feb 17, 2022 (SPX)
V Sge is a unique eclipsing cataclysmic binary and a recognized supersoft X-ray source, consisting of a compact white dwarf primary component and a main-sequenc...
Studying the next interstellar interloper with Webb
Feb 17, 2022 (SPX)
"The supreme sensitivity and power of Webb now present us with an unprecedented opportunity to investigate the chemical composition of these interstellar object...
New chemical pathway allows for Peptides to form on cosmic dust grains
Feb 11, 2022 (SPX)
Peptides are one of the basic building blocks of life, and the new discovery bolsters scenarios in which complex organic molecules, having formed on dust grains...
Planetary bodies observed in habitable zone of dead star
Feb 11, 2022 (SPX)
For the new study, researchers observed WD1054-226, a white dwarf 117 light years away, recording changes in its light over 18 nights using the ULTRACAM high-sp...
New planet detected around star closest to the Sun
Feb 11, 2022 (SPX)
"The discovery shows that our closest stellar neighbour seems to be packed with interesting new worlds, within reach of further study and future exploration," e...
A targeted, reliable, long-lasting kill switch for genetically engineered microbe
Feb 10, 2022 (SPX)
His research was published Feb. 3 in the journal Nature Communications. Moon's lab understands microbes in a way that only engineers would, as systems made up o...
Final moments of planetary remnants seen for first time
Feb 10, 2022 (SPX)
They have used X-rays to detect the rocky and gaseous material left behind by a planetary system after its host star dies as it collides and is consumed within ...
Giant sponge gardens discovered on seamounts in the Arctic deep sea
Feb 09, 2022 (SPX)
"Thriving on top of extinct volcanic seamounts of the Langseth Ridge we found massive sponge gardens, but did not know what they were feeding on," reports Antje...
Warps drive disruptions in planet formation in young solar systems
Feb 07, 2022 (SPX)
Solar systems are formed from protoplanetary discs, massive spinning clouds of gas and dust that will eventually coalesce into the array of planets that we see ...
Puffy planets lose atmospheres, become Super Earths
Feb 07, 2022 (SPX)
Now, astronomers have identified two different cases of "mini-Neptune" planets that are losing their puffy atmospheres and likely transforming into super-Earths...
AI for Earth and Space: Call for researchers and experts
Feb 07, 2022 (SPX)
FDL is a public-private partnership between NASA, DOE, the SETI Institute, Trillium Technologies, the European Space Agency and leaders in commercial AI, space ...
Animal genomes: Chromosomes almost unchanged for over 600 million years
Feb 03, 2022 (SPX)
More than 20 years later, scientists now have access to technologies that can reveal the complete sequence of entire chromosomes that comprise the genome. Befor...
Moons may yield clues to what makes planets habitable
Feb 03, 2022 (SPX)
Because the moon is so important to life on Earth, scientists conjecture that a moon may be a potentially beneficial feature in harboring life on other planets....
Even dying stars can still give birth to planets
Feb 02, 2022 (SPX)
Planets such as Earth, and all other planets in our solar system, were formed not long after the Sun. Our Sun started to burn 4.6 billion years ago, and in the ...
What the rise of oxygen on early Earth tells us about life on other planets
Feb 01, 2022 (SPX)
"Until now, there was a critical gap in our understanding of environmental drivers in early evolution. The early Earth was marked by low levels of oxygen, till ...
Extreme exoplanet has a complex and exotic atmosphere
Jan 28, 2022 (SPX)
The atmosphere of Earth is not a uniform envelope but consists of distinct layers that each have characteristic properties. The lowest layer that spans from sea...
A planetary dynamical crime scene at 14 Herculis
Jan 25, 2022 (SPX)
In the recently published paper "14 Her: a likely case of planet-planet scattering," Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi-a senior member of the Brown Dwarfs in New York...
TESS Science Office at MIT hits milestone of 5,000 exoplanet candidates
Jan 21, 2022 (SPX)
The catalog has been growing steadily since the start of the mission in 2018, and the batch of TOIs boosting the catalog to over 5,000 come mostly from the Fain...
SETI's plan for a sky-monitoring telescope on the moon
Jan 19, 2022 (SPX)
L-CAM1 will capture images for research in astrophysics, planetary science and planetary defense. Dr. Franck Marchis, a senior planetary astronomer at the SETI ...
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