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Microbes in the seabed survive on little energy
Aug 07, 2020 (SPX)
A new study led by James Bradley of the German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ and Queen Mary University of London provides a surprising answer: Microbes in...
Surprisingly dense exoplanet challenges planet formation theories
Aug 07, 2020 (SPX)
New observations of the exoplanet, known as K2-25b, made with the WIYN 0.9-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), a Program of NSF's NOIRLab,...
Hubble uses Earth as a Proxy for identifying oxygen on exoplanets
Aug 07, 2020 (SPX)
Hubble did not look at Earth directly. Instead, the astronomers used the Moon as a mirror to reflect sunlight, which had passed through Earth's atmosphere, and ...
Deep sea microbes dormant for 100 million years are hungry and ready to multiply
Aug 03, 2020 (SPX)
The research team behind the new study, from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), the URI Graduate School of Oceanography, the Na...
Surprising number of exoplanets could host life
Aug 03, 2020 (SPX)
The search for life in outer space is typically focused on what scientists call the "habitable zone," which is the area around a star in which an orbiting plane...
As if space wasn't dangerous enough
Jul 28, 2020 (SPX)
Similarly, the launch of the Emirates Mars Mission on Sunday marked the Arab world's foray into interplanetary space travel. And on July 30, we expect to see NA...
Scientists revive microbes from 100 million years ago
Jul 28, 2020 (AFP)
Their research sheds light on the remarkable survival power of some of Earth's most primitive species, which can exist for tens of millions of years with barely...
First ever image of a multi-planet system around a sun-like star captured by ESO telescope
Jul 23, 2020 (SPX)
Just a few weeks ago, ESO revealed a planetary system being born in a new, stunning VLT image. Now, the same telescope, using the same instrument, has taken the...
Exoplanet rediscovery is step toward finding habitable planets
Jul 23, 2020 (SPX)
The planet, the size and mass of Saturn with an orbit of thirty-five days, is among hundreds of 'lost' worlds that University of Warwick astronomers are pioneer...
Could mini-Neptunes be irradiated ocean planets
Jul 21, 2020 (SPX)
Now, scientists at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (CNRS/Aix-Marseille Universite/CNES)[1] have examined a new possibility, namely that the low den...
Astronomers track down 'lost' worlds spotted but unconfirmed by TESS survey
Jul 21, 2020 (UPI)
One of those rediscovered worlds, described this week in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, is NGTS-11b, an exoplanet with the size and mass of Saturn but an or...
Artificial intelligence predicts which planetary systems will survive
Jul 15, 2020 (SPX)
Rejecting the large range of unstable possibilities - all the configurations that would lead to collisions - would leave behind a sharper view of planetary syst...
'Disk Detective' Needs Your Help Finding Disks Where Planets Form
Jul 15, 2020 (ESA)
Through a project called Disk Detective, you can help. Anyone, regardless of background or prior knowledge, can assist scientists in figuring out the mysteries ...
Supercomputer reveals atmospheric impact of gigantic planetary collisions
Jul 15, 2020 (SPX)
Research led by Durham University and involving the University of Glasgow, both UK, has developed a way of revealing the scale of atmosphere loss during planeta...
NASA Awards SETI Institute Contract for Planetary Protection Support
Jul 13, 2020 (SPX)
The SETI Institute will work with NASA's Office of Planetary Protection (OPP) to provide technical reviews and recommendations, validate biological cleanliness ...
The cosmic commute towards star and planet formation
Jul 09, 2020 (SPX)
To better understand this process, a team of astronomers led by Jonathan Henshaw at Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) have measured the motion of gas fl...
Dying stars breathe life into Earth
Jul 07, 2020 (SPX)
Findings from a study published in Nature Astronomy show that the final breaths of these dying stars, called white dwarfs, shed light on carbon's origin in the ...
The cosmic commute toward star and planet formation
Jul 07, 2020 (SPX)
Modern astrophysical facilities now routinely map huge areas of the sky, with some maps containing millions of pixels, each with hundreds to thousands of indepe...
Unprecedented ground-based discovery of 2 strongly interacting exoplanets
Jul 03, 2020 (SPX)
An international collaboration including CNRS researchers* has discovered an unusual planetary system, dubbed WASP-148, using the French instrument SOPHIE at th...
First exposed planetary core discovered allows glimpse inside other worlds
Jul 02, 2020 (SPX)
The core, which is the same size as Neptune in our own solar system, is believed to be a gas giant that was either stripped of its gaseous atmosphere or that fa...
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