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Arianespace to launch PLATiNO 1 and 2 on Vega and Vega C
Jan 07, 2022 (SPX)
PLATiNO 1 and 2 are Earth observation small satellites operating on Sun-synchronous orbits. PLATiNO 1 will embark a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), operating in...
Life could be thriving in the clouds of Venus
Jan 07, 2022 (SPX)
Limaye is an expert on Venus. With more than 45 years of research behind him, he continues to investigate the planet's dense atmosphere. "As one of our closest ...
Sending Life to the Stars
Jan 07, 2022 (SPX)
For UC Santa Barbara professors Philip Lubin(link is external) and Joel Rothman(link is external), it's a great time to be alive. Born of a generation that saw ...
The mysterious dusty object orbiting TIC 400799224
Jan 05, 2022 (SPX)
Follow-up studies of TIC objects have found they result from stellar pulsations, shocks from supernovae, disintegrating planets, gravitational self-lensed binar...
Billions of starless planets haunt dark cloud cradles
Dec 28, 2021 (SPX)
Free Floating Planets (FFPs) have been known for about 20 years, but their origins have been shrouded in mystery. Are they born naturally in the cold cradle of ...
ESO telescopes help uncover largest group of rogue planets yet
Dec 28, 2021 (SPX)
Rogue planets, lurking far away from any star illuminating them, would normally be impossible to image. However, Miret-Roig and her team took advantage of the f...
Astronomers Detect Signature of Magnetic Field on an Exoplanet
Dec 28, 2021 (SPX)
A magnetic field best explains the observations of an extended region of charged carbon particles that surround the planet and stream away from it in a long tai...
Lost in space: Rocky planets formed from missing solar system material
Dec 27, 2021 (SPX)
Rocky planets may have formed by two fundamentally different processes, but it is unclear which one built the terrestrial planets of our solar system. The plane...
Could acid-neutralizing life-forms make habitable pockets in Venus' clouds?
Dec 21, 2021 (SPX)
And yet, a new study supports the longstanding idea that if life exists, it might make a home in Venus' clouds. The study's authors, from MIT, Cardiff Universit...
Founding members of world's first independent space science mission confirmed
Dec 17, 2021 (SPX)
The Founding Members include institutions from North America (Vanderbilt University, Ohio State University, University of Toronto), Asia-Pacific (Nanjing Univer...
Stellar ashfall could help distant planets grow
Dec 15, 2021 (SPX)
This process can be likened to volcanic "ashfall" where ash carried up by gas during an eruption falls back on the area around the volcano. These results help t...
Life arose on hydrogen energy
Dec 15, 2021 (SPX)
This identified the long-sought source of energy needed to drive these reactions forward, which has been hiding in plain sight. The energy required to synthesiz...
Newer, nimbler, faster: Venus probe will search for signs of life in clouds of sulfuric acid
Dec 10, 2021 (SPX)
In a new report published Friday, a team led by MIT researchers lays out the scientific plan and rationale for a suite of scrappy, privately-funded missions set...
ESO telescope images planet around most massive star pair to date
Dec 09, 2021 (SPX)
"Finding a planet around b Centauri was very exciting since it completely changes the picture about massive stars as planet hosts," explains Markus Janson, an a...
Airbus will build ESA's Ariel exoplanet satellite
Dec 08, 2021 (ESA)
Ariel is the third in a trio of dedicated exoplanet missions conceived by ESA focusing on various aspects of this rapidly evolving subject area. It will follow ...
Gas bubbles in rock pores - a nursery for life on Early Earth
Dec 08, 2021 (SPX)
Scientists have not yet shown how those microdroplets could have evolved to start life on earth. Researchers at LMU's Center for NanoScience (CeNS) and the Max ...
Iron integral to the development of life on Earth - and the possibility of life on other planets
Dec 08, 2021 (SPX)
Now, scientists at the University of Oxford have uncovered the likely mechanisms by which iron influenced the development of complex life forms, which can also ...
Giant planets could reach maturity much earlier than previously thought
Dec 06, 2021 (SPX)
Masses for such young giant planets had not been obtained previously. The study now published in Nature Astronomy delivers the first evidence that these objects...
TESS discovers a planet the size of Mars but with the makeup of Mercury
Dec 03, 2021 (SPX)
Now, astronomers have discovered an ultra-short-period planet (USP) that is also super light. The planet is named GJ 367 b, and it orbits its star in just eight...
Discovery Alert: 172 Possible Planets? A New Roadmap to Distant Worlds
Dec 03, 2021 (JPL)
Key facts: The Kepler Space Telescope, which was shut down in 2018 after running dry of fuel, explored the galaxy for nine years and found thousands of exoplane...
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