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Microbial space travel on a molecular scale
Nov 05, 2020 (SPX)
The extremophilic bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans withstands the drastic influence of outer space: galactic cosmic and solar UV radiation, extreme vacuum, tem...
Model of multicellular evolution overturns classic theory
Nov 04, 2020 (SPX)
The findings, originally posted on bioRxiv*, provide new insight about natural selection, and help us understand how and why common multicellular life has evolv...
Checking the speed of spirals
Nov 04, 2020 (SPX)
What's Driving Patterns? Among the many swirling disks of gas and dust we've spotted around young, newly formed stars, more than a dozen contain a notable featu...
Supersonic winds, rocky rains forecasted on lava planet
Nov 04, 2020 (SPX)
In a study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, the scientists use computer simulations to predict the conditions on K2-141b, an Eart...
Assessing the habitability of planets around old red dwarfs
Nov 02, 2020 (SPX)
A new study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope examined the red dwarf called Barnard's Star, which is about 10 billion years old,...
Comets Had Impact in the Start of Life on Earth
Oct 30, 2020 (SPX)
Their project, funded by NASA and conducted at the Experimental Impact Laboratory at Johnson Space Center, exposed GLA samples to impact pressures between 4.5 a...
About Half of Sun-Like Stars Could Host Rocky, Potentially Habitable Planets
Oct 30, 2020 (SPX)
Our galaxy holds an estimated 300 million of these potentially habitable worlds, based on results in a study published in The Astronomical Journal. Some of thes...
Mars-sized rogue planet found drifting through the Milky Way
Oct 29, 2020 (UPI)
The new exoplanet, the smallest free-floating planet astronomers have found, is too small to be directly observed. Researchers were able to spot the rogue world...
Data reveals evidence of molecular absorption in the atmosphere of a hot Neptune
Oct 28, 2020 (SPX)
The discovery was made with data provided from the now-retired NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, which allows a unique, infrared view of the universe to look into r...
AI and photonics join forces to make it easier to find 'new Earths'
Oct 22, 2020 (SPX)
Using artificial intelligence and machine learning, University of Sydney optical scientists have developed a sensor that can neutralise a star's 'twinkle' cause...
Smile, wave: Some exoplanets may be able to see us, too
Oct 22, 2020 (SPX)
Lisa Kaltenegger, associate professor of astronomy at Cornell University and director of Cornell's Carl Sagan Institute; and Joshua Pepper, associate professor ...
Microbial diversity below seafloor is as rich as on Earth's surface
Oct 21, 2020 (SPX)
A team of researchers from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), the University of Hyogo, the University of Kochi, the University ...
Two Planets Around a Red Dwarf
Oct 16, 2020 (SPX)
Red dwarfs are the coolest kind of star. As such, they potentially allow liquid water to exist on planets that are quite close to them. In the search for habita...
No social distancing at the beginning of life
Oct 14, 2020 (SPX)
In this paper the researchers took evolutionary tools to study the growth of biofilms, the most common bacterial lifestyle characterized by the tight clustering...
Earth-like planets often come with a bodyguard
Oct 14, 2020 (SPX)
This circumstance therefore repeatedly raises the question whether such a combination of planets is rather random, or whether it is a common result of the forma...
Massive stars are factories for ingredients to life
Oct 09, 2020 (SPX)
It found massive quantities of water and organic molecules in these swirling, disk-shaped clouds, offering new insights into how some of the key ingredients of ...
Vaporized metal in the air of an exoplanet
Oct 09, 2020 (SPX)
Researchers led by Jens Hoeijmakers, first author of the study and postdoctoral research fellow at the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS at the ...
New research explores how super flares affect planets' habitability
Oct 08, 2020 (SPX)
Super flares are bursts of energy that are 10 to 1,000 times larger than the biggest flares from the Earth's sun. These flares can bathe a planet in an amount o...
Searching for the chemistry of life
Oct 07, 2020 (SPX)
"One of the most intriguing questions in the search for the origin of life is how the chemical selection occurred and how the first biomolecules formed," says T...
Some planets may be better for life than Earth
Oct 07, 2020 (SPX)
A study led by Washington State University scientist Dirk Schulze-Makuch recently published in the journal Astrobiology details characteristics of potential "su...
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