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Photosynthesis could be as old as life itself
Mar 29, 2021 (SPX)
The finding also challenges expectations for how life might have evolved on other planets. The evolution of photosynthesis that produces oxygen is thought to be...
How asteroid dust helped us prove life's raw ingredients can evolve in outer space
Mar 29, 2021 (SPX)
But, until now, no study had delivered conclusive evidence, based on extraterrestrial samples, to show how and when organic matter was made on the rocks that gr...
Pandora Mission Would Expand NASA's Capabilities in Probing Alien Worlds
Mar 24, 2021 (SPX)
This mission would seek to determine atmospheric compositions by observing planets and their host stars simultaneously in visible and infrared light over long p...
NASA confirms more than 5,000 planets outside the solar system
Mar 22, 2021 (UPI)
The space agency said the confirmed planets are just a small fraction of the billions of planets the Milky Way likely holds. That number only increases when con...
SwRI researcher theorizes worlds with underground oceans support, conceal life
Mar 17, 2021 (SPX)
In a report presented at the 52nd annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC 52) this week, Southwest Research Institute planetary scientist S. Alan St...
ASU scientists determine origin of strange interstellar object
Mar 17, 2021 (SPX)
Two Arizona State University astrophysicists, Steven Desch and Alan Jackson of the School of Earth and Space Exploration, set out to explain the odd features of...
There might be many planets with water-rich atmospheres
Mar 16, 2021 (SPX)
However, a new study by University of Chicago and Stanford University researchers suggests a mechanism whereby these planets could not only develop atmospheres ...
How the habitability of exoplanets is influenced by their rocks
Mar 16, 2021 (SPX)
Too little or too much of certain gases - like carbon dioxide - and Earth could become a ball of ice or turn into a pressure cooker. When scientists look for po...
Distant planet may be on its second atmosphere
Mar 12, 2021 (SPX)
The planet, GJ 1132 b, is hypothesized to have begun as a gaseous world with a thick hydrogen blanket of atmosphere. Starting out at several times the diameter ...
Ideas for future NASA missions searching for extraterrestrial civilizations
Mar 11, 2021 (SPX)
In the article, several ideas are presented to search for technosignatures that would indicate the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations, from the most hu...
A giant, sizzling planet may be orbiting the star Vega
Mar 09, 2021 (SPX)
The research, published this month in The Astronomical Journal, was led by University of Colorado Boulder student Spencer Hurt, an undergraduate in the Departme...
MAROON-X embarks on its exoplanet quest
Mar 05, 2021 (SPX)
The exoplanet-hunting instrument MAROON-X has obtained its first scientific result from its new home at the 8.1-meter Gemini North telescope, part of the intern...
Volcanoes might light up the night sky of this planet
Mar 05, 2021 (SPX)
Until now, researchers have found no evidence of global tectonic activity on planets outside our solar system. A team of researchers led by Tobias Meier from th...
A super-Earth is discovered which can be used to test planetary atmosphere models
Mar 05, 2021 (SPX)
However, to study the atmospheres of the rocky planets, which would made it possible to characterize fully those exoplanets which are similar to Earth, is extre...
Earth has a hot new neighbour - and it's an astronomer's dream
Mar 05, 2021 (SPX)
The planet, called Gliese 486b (pronounced Glee-seh), is a 'super-Earth': that is, a rocky planet bigger than Earth but smaller than ice giants like Neptune and...
Organic materials essential for life on Earth are found for the first time on the surface of an asteroid
Mar 05, 2021 (SPX)
The single grain sample was returned to Earth from asteroid 'Itokawa' by JAXA's first Hayabusa mission in 2010. The sample shows that water and organic matter t...
Planet-hunting eye of Plato
Mar 05, 2021 (ESA)
Testing at the ESTEC Test Centre in the Netherlands reproduced the telescope's planned operating environment in deep space, 1.5 million km away from Earth. "Loc...
Three elder sisters of the Sun with planets
Mar 03, 2021 (SPX)
You can read about the astronomers' success in Astronomy and Astrophysics. The prestigious European journal will publish the paper: Tracking Advanced Planetary ...
Microbes deep beneath seafloor survive on byproducts of radioactive process
Feb 26, 2021 (SPX)
The team discovered that the creation of these chemicals is amplified significantly by minerals in marine sediment. In contrast to the conventional view that li...
Big galaxies steal star-forming gas from their smaller neighbours
Feb 24, 2021 (SPX)
In research published this week astronomers have discovered that these small satellite galaxies also contain less 'molecular' gas at their centres. Molecular ga...
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