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Planet formation depends on when it happens: UNLV model shows why
Oct 17, 2025 (SPX)
In a paper published Sept. 23 in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, researchers at UNLV in collaboration with scientists from the Open University of Israel for ...
Ancient Heavy Water Found in Planet-Forming Disk Reveals Solar Origins of Earth's Oceans
Oct 16, 2025 (SPX)
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers identified doubly deuterated water (D2O) in the disk surrounding V883 Orionis, a youn...
Stopping slime on Earth and in space
Oct 16, 2025 (SPX)
A multi-university research team led by Arizona State University Regents Professor Paul Westerhoff is investigating ultraviolet light as a cost-effective, safer...
Geologists discover the first evidence of 4.5-billion-year-old proto Earth
Oct 15, 2025 (SPX)
Billions of years ago, the early solar system was a swirling disk of gas and dust that eventually clumped and accumulated to form the earliest meteorites, which...
Spirals in young star disk reveal planet formation process
Oct 13, 2025 (SPX)
Located 515 light-years away in the constellation Lupus, IM Lup's protoplanetary disk displays spirals that astronomers consider possible precursors of planet f...
Rogue planet devours matter at record pace of six billion tonnes a second
Oct 13, 2025 (SPX)
Rogue planets drift through space untethered to any star. The newly studied object, officially named Cha 1107-7626, is located 620 light-years away in the const...
Baby' Planet Photographed in a Ring around a Star for the First Time!
Oct 13, 2025 (SPX)
Researchers have directly detected - essentially photographed - a new planet called WISPIT 2b, labeled a protoplanet because it is an astronomical object that i...
Completed Plato spacecraft construction enters final test campaign
Oct 10, 2025 (SPX)
The activities to complete Plato started soon after the spacecraft arrived at ESA's Test Centre in the Netherlands. On 9 September, in a dedicated clean room, e...
Rare clean room bacterium survives by playing dead UH team finds
Oct 09, 2025 (SPX)
The microorganism, Tersicoccus phoenicis, turned up in two clean rooms more than a decade ago in Florida and French Guiana. These facilities undergo rigorous st...
Rocket test proves bacteria survive space launch and re-entry unharmed
Oct 07, 2025 (SPX)
Space agencies are planning to send crews to Mars within decades but sustaining life on the red planet would be more difficult if important bacteria die during ...
White dwarf consumes icy Pluto-like planet fragment in deep space
Oct 07, 2025 (SPX)
The team used ultraviolet spectroscopy from the Hubble Space Telescope to analyze WD 1647+375, a white dwarf star showing unusual traces of volatile elements. W...
Space agencies track rare 3I/ATLAS interstellar object near Mars
Oct 07, 2025 (UPI)
The object is thought to be a comet and is only the third interstellar object to be identified within the solar system, according to NASA. NASA's Mars Persevera...
Young rogue planet displays record-breaking 'growth spurt'
Oct 06, 2025 (SPX)
A team of international researchers have explored changes in the planet's growth and immediate surroundings. The observations provide insight into how rogue pla...
Detection of phosphine in a brown dwarf atmosphere raises more questions
Oct 06, 2025 (SPX)
Now a team of researchers, led by University of California San Diego Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Adam Burgasser, has reported the detection of phosp...
Patchwork planets: Piecing together the early solar system
Oct 06, 2025 (SPX)
"Far from being made of pristine material, planets - including Earth - were built from recycled fragments of shattered and rebuilt bodies," said Damanveer Singh...
The first animals on Earth may have been sea sponges, study suggests
Sep 30, 2025 (SPX)
In a study appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers report that they have identified "chemical fossils" that may have b...
Webb reveals carbon rich disc around giant exoplanet
Sep 30, 2025 (SPX)
The international team used Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) to probe the system and revealed a carbon-rich disc encircling CT Cha b. While no moons have y...
NASA's Tally of Planets Outside Our Solar System Reaches 6,000
Sep 25, 2025 (SPX)
The official number of exoplanets - planets outside our solar system - tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling ...
Simulations of Exoplanet Formation May Help Inform Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Sep 25, 2025 (SPX)
The paper "Born Dry or Born Wet? A Palette of Water Growth Histories in TRAPPIST-1 Analogs and Compact Planetary Systems" was authored by Chen, an assistant pro...
Exoplanets unlikely to host global oceans
Sep 22, 2025 (SPX)
"Water on planets is much more limited than previously believed," said ETH Zurich professor Caroline Dorn. The study, conducted with the Max Planck Institute fo...
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