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An eight-hour year
Dec 02, 2021 (SPX)
The planetary system is located just under 31 light years from Earth and is thus ideal for further investigation. The discovery demonstrates that it is possible...
Bolstering planetary biosecurity in an era of space exploration
Dec 02, 2021 (SPX)
Space missions to Mars and other planets and moons carry risks of biological contamination - for both Earth and the planets targeted by space missions according...
New possibilities for life at the bottom of Earth and other Oceanic Worlds
Nov 29, 2021 (SPX)
In a newly published study, biogeoscientists Jeffrey Dick and Everett Shock have determined that specific hydrothermal seafloor environments provide a unique ha...
Orbital harmony limits late arrival of water on TRAPPIST-1 planets
Nov 26, 2021 (SPX)
"After rocky planets form, things bash into them," said astrophysicist Sean Raymond of the University of Bordeaux in France. "It's called bombardment, or late a...
Prototype SETI hardware gets first data from VLA
Nov 26, 2021 (SPX)
"As soon as the cabling was physically connected, our interface locked on to the VLA data streams and we were able to grab some preliminary data," said Dr. Jack...
Hubble Finds Flame Nebula's Searing Stars May Halt Planet Formation
Nov 24, 2021 (SPX)
Hubble found four confirmed proplyds and four possible proplyds in the nebula, but the proplyds are being worn away by the intense radiation of nearby stars and...
One year on this giant, blistering hot planet is just 16 hours long
Nov 24, 2021 (SPX)
Among the more confounding planets discovered to date are "hot Jupiters" - massive balls of gas that are about the size of our own Jovian planet but that zing a...
New deep learning method adds 301 planets to Kepler's total count
Nov 23, 2021 (JPL)
Deep neural networks are machine learning methods that automatically learn a task when provided with enough data. ExoMiner is a new deep neural network that lev...
Roasted and Shredded by a Stellar Sidekick
Nov 23, 2021 (SPX)
Most stars, including the Sun, will become "white dwarfs" after they begin to run out of fuel, expand and cool into a red giant, and then lose their outer layer...
NASA announces discovery of 301 new exoplanets
Nov 22, 2021 (UPI)
The new discoveries bring the total of validated exoplanets to 4,569 since the discovery of the first ones in the mid-1990s. NASA said Monday that the discoveri...
Alien invasions and the need for planetary biosecurity
Nov 18, 2021 (SPX)
The authors caution that biological contamination endangers both ecosystems and human well-being. "Owing to their massive costs to resource sectors and human he...
Alien organisms - hitchhikers of the galaxy
Nov 18, 2021 (SPX)
Published in international journal BioSciences, a team of scientists, including Dr Phill Cassey, Head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at t...
The worlds next door: Looking for habitable planets around Alpha Centauri
Nov 18, 2021 (SPX)
The proposed telescope project will look for planets in the 'Goldilocks' zone around the star system just four light years away, where temperatures could allow ...
Simulations provide clue to missing planets mystery
Nov 15, 2021 (SPX)
Young stars are encircled by protoplanetary disks of gas and dust. One of the world's most powerful radio telescope arrays, ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submi...
New model will help find Earth-like Exoplanets
Nov 12, 2021 (SPX)
A new computational model, developed by an international team of geologists based in the USA, Switzerland, France and St Andrews, published in the Journal of Ge...
Discovering exoplanets using artificial intelligence
Nov 12, 2021 (SPX)
It is in this context that a team of astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), the University of Bern (UniBE), and the NCCR PlanetS, Switzerland, in co...
Tread lightly: 'Eggshell planets' possible around other stars
Nov 11, 2021 (SPX)
Only a small subset of extrasolar planets are likely eggshell planets. Planetary geologist Paul Byrne, first author of the new modeling study in the Journal of ...
Circumbinary planet discovered by TESS validates new detection technique
Nov 11, 2021 (SPX)
Circumbinary planets are planetary bodies that rotate around two stars. Although for years, they were merely a matter of science fiction, thanks to the successf...
Major endorsement for new space mission to find 'Earth 2.0'
Nov 10, 2021 (SPX)
The Large Ultraviolet Optical Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR) is a leading mission concept to meet the recommendations of the long-awaited Astro2020 Decadal Survey, ...
Hunting for alien planets
Nov 10, 2021 (SPX)
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) is assisting the effort with supercomputer time and expertise in NEID's scientific search for new worlds. The name 'N...
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