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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 ...
Evidence for a second supermoon beyond our solar system
Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)
But it could be a long wait. The first-ever sighting of an exomoon four years ago is still awaiting confirmation, and verification of this newest candidate coul...
Plato exoplanet mission gets green light for next phase
Jan 14, 2022 (ESA)
The review verified the maturity of the complete space segment (spacecraft platform and payload module), confirming the solidity of the spacecraft-to-payload in...
NASA's Spitzer illuminates exoplanets in Astronomical Society briefing
Jan 14, 2022 (JPL)
One investigation shows that the weather on brown dwarfs - which form like stars but don't have sufficient mass to start burning hydrogen in their cores as star...
New insights into seasons on a planet outside our solar system
Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)
In a recent paper, a McGill-led research team, provides new insight into what seasons looks like on a planet outside our solar system. The researchers also sugg...
Unusual team finds gigantic planet hidden in plain sight
Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)
Details of the finding have been published in the Astronomical Journal and presented at the American Astronomical Society virtual press event on Jan. 13. "TOI-2...
Citizen Scientists Spot Jupiter-like Planet in NASA TESS Data
Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)
Now, Jacobs has helped discover a giant gaseous planet about 379 light-years from Earth, orbiting a star with the same mass as the Sun. The Jupiter-size planet ...
Ironing out the interiors of exoplanets
Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists and collaborators have used lasers at the National Ignition Facility to experimentally determine the hi...
Scientists are a step closer to finding planets like Earth
Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)
Caroline Harper, Head of Space Science at the UK Space Agency, said: The critical milestone review has confirmed the maturity of the design and the robustness o...
Pandora mission to study stars and exoplanets continues toward flight
Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)
After a successful concept study report and system requirements review, NASA approved the mission to continue toward flight. Lawrence Livermore National Laborat...
New study sheds light on origins of life on Earth
Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)
The researchers explored how primitive life may have originated on our planet from simple, non-living materials. They asked what properties define life as we kn...
Newly-Found Planets On The Edge Of Destruction
Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)
"These discoveries are crucial to understanding a new frontier in exoplanet studies: how planetary systems evolve over time," explained lead author Samuel Grunb...
New spheres of knowledge on the origin of life
Jan 13, 2022 (SPX)
Primitive cells are thought to have been spherical, but experimental evidence supporting this belief remains elusive. Now, however, researchers from the Univers...
Increased space missions risk extraterrestrial contamination
Jan 13, 2022 (SPX)
Though it may seem like we are entering an exciting and fast-paced moment in the history of space exploration, invasion biologists and other scientists who stud...
It all comes down to the first electron
Jan 13, 2022 (SPX)
Reduction rates vary considerably. In oxygen-free soils or sediments, iron oxides play a major role as acceptors of the released electrons. But how do the elect...
From dust to planet: how gas giants form
Jan 12, 2022 (SPX)
"We already know quite a bit about how planets are made," says Kobayashi. "Dust lying within the far-reaching 'protoplanetary disks' surrounding newly formed st...
Cheops reveals a rugby ball-shaped exoplanet
Jan 12, 2022 (ESA)
The planet, known as WASP-103b is located in the constellation of Hercules. It has been deformed by the strong tidal forces between the planet and its host star...
Eccentric exoplanet discovered
Jan 10, 2022 (SPX)
"Red dwarfs" are small stars and thus much cooler than our Sun. Around stars like these, liquid water is possible on planets much closer to the star than in our...
Elusive atmospheric molecule produced in a lab for the 1st time by UH
Jan 10, 2022 (SPX)
Methanediol is also known as formaldehyde monohydrate or methylene glycol. With the chemical formula CH2(OH)2, it is the simplest geminal diol, a molecule which...
New year's mission to start new phase of exoplanet research
Jan 07, 2022 (SPX)
The new instrument will enable scientists to see a much wider range of planets orbiting suns outside the Solar system, broadening our search for planets capable...
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