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ESO telescope sees signs of planet birth
May 21, 2020 (SPX)
"Thousands of exoplanets have been identified so far, but little is known about how they form," says Anthony Boccaletti who led the study from the Observatoire ...
New study estimates the odds of life and intelligence emerging beyond our planet
May 19, 2020 (SPX)
We know from the geological record that life started relatively quickly, as soon our planet's environment was stable enough to support it. We also know that the...
Statistical analysis reveals odds of life evolving on alien worlds
May 19, 2020 (UPI)
"The rapid emergence of life and the late evolution of humanity, in the context of the timeline of evolution, are certainly suggestive," David Kipping, an assis...
Exoplanet climate 'decoder' aids search for life
May 19, 2020 (SPX)
"We looked at how different planetary surfaces in the habitable zones of distant solar systems could affect the climate on exoplanets," said Jack Madden, who wo...
Astronomers confirm existence of two giant newborn planets
May 19, 2020 (SPX)
Using a new infrared pyramid wavefront sensor for adaptive optics (AO) correction at W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaii, a Caltech-led team of astrono...
TRAPPIST-1 planetary orbits not misaligned
May 15, 2020 (SPX)
Stars like the Sun are not static, but rotate about an axis. This rotation is most noticeable when there are features like sunspots on the surface of the star. ...
Amsterdam researchers observe iron in exoplanetary atmosphere
May 14, 2020 (SPX)
The exoplanet KELT-9b orbits around its star KELT-9 in 36 hours. The star and planet are located at a distance of approximately 620 light-years from Earth in th...
Scientists reveal solar system's oldest molecular fluids could hold the key to early life
May 12, 2020 (SPX)
An international group of scientists, led by researchers from the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and co-authors from McMaster University and York University, used s...
New 'planetary quarantine' report reviewing risks of alien contamination
May 11, 2020 (SPX)
It's an old fear that's taken on a new relevance in the era of COVID-19, said Scott Hubbard, an adjunct professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford Un...
Life on the rocks helps scientists understand how to survive in extreme environments
May 05, 2020 (SPX)
A report of the findings published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences show how life can flourish in places without much water - including Mars, ...
Microorganisms in parched regions extract needed water from colonized rocks
May 05, 2020 (SPX)
Through work in the field and laboratory experiments, researchers at the University of California, Irvine, as well as Johns Hopkins University and UC Riverside,...
Exoplanets: How we'll search for signs of life
May 05, 2020 (SPX)
NASA missions like the space telescope Kepler have helped us document thousands of exoplanets - planets that orbit around other stars. And current NASA missions...
Study: Life might survive, and thrive, in a hydrogen world
May 05, 2020 (SPX)
That's a prospect that astronomers like Sara Seager hope to avoid. Seager, the Class of 1941 Professor of Planetary Science, Physics, and Aeronautics and Astron...
New study examines which galaxies are best for intelligent life
May 04, 2020 (SPX)
The paper, published May 1 in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, contradicts a 2015 study that theorized giant elliptical galaxies w...
Astronomers capture rare images of planet-forming disks around stars
May 01, 2020 (SPX)
To understand how planetary systems, including our own, take shape, you have to study their origins. Planet-forming or protoplanetary disks are formed in unison...
No blue skies for super-hot planet WASP-79b
May 01, 2020 (SPX)
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope teamed up with the Magellan Consortium's Magellan II Telescope in Chile to analyze the atmosphere of this planet, which orbits a s...
Astronomers could spot life signs orbiting long-dead stars
May 01, 2020 (SPX)
The chemical properties of those far-off worlds could indicate that life exists there. To help future scientists make sense of what their telescopes are showing...
Newly discovered exoplanet dethrones former king of Kepler-88 planetary system
Apr 30, 2020 (SPX)
Do other planetary systems have gravitational gods like Jupiter? A team of astronomers led by the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (UH IfA) has disc...
Researchers use 'hot Jupiter' data to mine exoplanet chemistry
Apr 24, 2020 (SPX)
This new model allows scientists to gather data on an exoplanet's molecular chemistry and gain insight on the cosmos' planetary beginnings, according to researc...
New study reveals life's earliest evolution was more complicated than previously suspected
Apr 23, 2020 (SPX)
Previous studies have suggested this information can be obtained by comparing the genes present in modern organisms. New research indicates that only limited in...
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