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The Milky Way may be swarming with planets with oceans and continents like here on Earth
Feb 23, 2021 (SPX)
Now, researchers from the GLOBE Institute at the University of Copenhagen have published an eye-opening study, indicating that water may be present during the v...
On the quest for other Earths
Feb 18, 2021 (SPX)
This exoplanet is located in a zone that may offer suitable conditions for life. The team was able to collect data with unprecedented sensitivity, thus register...
The search for life beyond Earth
Feb 18, 2021 (AFP)
It is a question that has preoccupied scientists for centuries and fired up sci-fi imaginings. After seven months in space, NASA's Perseverance rover is due to ...
NASA's TESS discovers new worlds in a river of young stars
Feb 15, 2021 (SPX)
The planets were discovered in TESS images taken between October and December 2018. Follow-up studies of TOI 451 and its planets included observations made in 2...
Vaporised crusts of Earth-like planets found in dying stars
Feb 12, 2021 (SPX)
These crusts are from the outer layers of rocky planets similar to Earth and Mars and could give astronomers greater insights into the chemistry of the planets ...
Lasers reveal the secret interior of rocky exoplanets
Feb 12, 2021 (SPX)
Led by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), a team of researchers aims to unlock some of these secrets by understanding the properties of iron oxide -...
A new way of forming planets
Feb 12, 2021 (SPX)
The majority have fallen into the intermediate mass category - planets with masses of several Earth masses to around that of Neptune. Even in the context of the...
A new way to look for life-sustaining planets
Feb 11, 2021 (SPX)
Using a newly developed system for mid-infrared exoplanet imaging, in combination with a very long observation time, the study's authors say they can now use gr...
Pollution could be one way to find an extraterrestrial civilization
Feb 11, 2021 (SPX)
"On Earth, most of the nitrogen dioxide is emitted from human activity - combustion processes such as vehicle emissions and fossil-fueled power plants," said Ra...
A new method to search for potentially habitable planets
Feb 11, 2021 (SPX)
Efforts to obtain direct images of exoplanets - planets outside our solar system - have so far been hampered by technological limitations, which have led to a b...
Can super-Earth interior dynamics set the table for habitability
Feb 10, 2021 (SPX)
"Although observations of an exoplanet's atmospheric composition will be the first way to search for signatures of life beyond Earth, many aspects of a planet's...
Super-Earth atmospheres probed at Sandia's Z machine
Feb 10, 2021 (SPX)
The current work at Z is described in Nature Communications. Researchers in Sandia's Fundamental Science Program, working with colleagues at the Earth and Plane...
RUAG Space provides Solar Subsystem for planet hunter PLATO
Feb 09, 2021 (SPX)
It is scheduled to launch in 2026. Mid-January RUAG Space, a leading supplier to the space industry, and OHB, Germany's first listed space and technology compan...
Harvard astronomer argues that alien vessel paid us a visit
Feb 06, 2021 (AFP)
That's the premise of a new book by a top astronomer, who argues that the simplest and best explanation for the highly unusual characteristics of an interstella...
SPIRou Stares at a Young Rebel: the AU Mic Planetary System
Feb 05, 2021 (SPX)
These observations mark the very first time the mass, density and orbital inclination of a planet so young are reliably characterized. This result is part of an...
Could game theory help discover intelligent alien life
Jan 31, 2021 (SPX)
If advanced alien civilisations exist in our galaxy and are trying to communicate with us, what's the best way to find them? This is the grand challenge for ast...
Exoplanet has Earth-like layered atmosphere made of titanium gas
Jan 31, 2021 (UPI)
The research, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, found evidence that metals discovered in the atmosphere of WASP-189b are layered -- the first time rese...
TESS discovers four exoplanets orbiting a nearby sun-like star
Jan 29, 2021 (SPX)
With further study, says Daylan, this bright star and its many planets could be critical to understanding how planets take shape and evolve. "When it comes to c...
Peering inside the birthplaces of planets orbiting the smallest stars
Jan 29, 2021 (SPX)
Although these stars represent the vast majority of the stellar population, they only host 10% of the known exoplanets to date, including terrestrial and Jupite...
First six-star system where all six stars undergo eclipses
Jan 28, 2021 (SPX)
The system, also called TIC 168789840, is the first known sextuple composed of three sets of eclipsing binaries, stellar pairs whose orbits tip into our line of...
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