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Rules of life: From a pond to the beyond
Feb 19, 2020 (SPX)
This basin has an unusual characteristic of being particularly nutrient-poor and harboring a 'lost world' of many below-ground and above-ground aquatic microbes...
Random gene pulse patterns key to multicellular system development
Feb 19, 2020 (UPI)
For even the most complex organisms, life begins as a single cell. The process of dividing and multiplying cells, as well as the process of differentiating cell...
LOFAR pioneers new way to study exoplanet environments
Feb 18, 2020 (SPX)
The radio emission from a star-planet interaction has been predicted for over 30 years, but this is the first time astronomers have been able to discern its sig...
Looking for aliens who might be looking for us
Feb 17, 2020 (SPX)
Breakthrough Listen - based at the University of California, Berkeley - announced the public release of the data as well as research investigating these "techno...
Earth's cousins: Upcoming missions to look for 'biosignatures' in exoplanet atmospheres
Feb 17, 2020 (SPX)
Finding biosignatures is no straightforward task. Scientists use data about how exoplanet atmospheres interact with light from their parent star to learn about ...
New technologies, strategies expanding search for extraterrestrial life
Feb 17, 2020 (SPX)
New approaches will not only expand upon but also go beyond the traditional SETI technique of searching for intelligently-generated radio signals, first pioneer...
Scientists pick up pattern of space radio signals for 1st time, study says
Feb 12, 2020 (UPI)
Collaborators from the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment and FastRadio Burst Project said this particular signal began every 16.35 days from Sept. ...
Scientists discover nearest known 'baby giant planet'
Feb 12, 2020 (SPX)
The discovery, published in the Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, provides researchers an exciting new way to study how gas giants form. "The...
Distant giant planets form differently than 'failed stars'
Feb 11, 2020 (SPX)
Using direct imaging with ground-based telescopes in Hawaii - W. M. Keck Observatory and Subaru Telescope on Maunakea - the team studied the orbits of these fai...
CHEOPS space telescope takes its first pictures
Feb 10, 2020 (SPX)
The tension was high: In front of a large screen at the house near Madrid where members of the Consortium participating in the commissioning of the satellite li...
NASA's Webb will seek atmospheres around potentially habitable exoplanets
Feb 06, 2020 (SPX)
To find signs of an atmosphere, astronomers will use a technique called transmission spectroscopy. They observe the host star while the planet is crossing the f...
To make amino acids, just add electricity
Jan 30, 2020 (SPX)
Researchers at the International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research reported a new process using electricity to drive the efficient synthesis of amino...
AI could deceive us as much as the human eye does in the search for extraterrestrials
Jan 29, 2020 (SPX)
Ceres, although the largest object in the main asteroid belt, is a dwarf planet. It became famous a few years ago for one of its craters: Occator, where some br...
The skin of the earth is home to pac-man-like protists
Jan 27, 2020 (SPX)
"As part of a bigger project to understand all of the microbes in soil we are characterizing bacteria and fungi, but also a lesser-known, but equally important ...
How Earth climate models help scientists picture life on unimaginable worlds
Jan 26, 2020 (SPX)
But now, they're also sussing out something much farther away: whether any of the more than 4,000 curiously weird planets beyond our solar system discovered in ...
For hottest planet, a major meltdown, study shows
Jan 26, 2020 (JPL)
Called KELT-9b, the planet is an ultra-hot Jupiter, one of several varieties of exoplanets - planets around other stars - found in our galaxy. It weighs in at n...
Which will survive? A microorganism zoo in the stratosphere
Jan 26, 2020 (SPX)
They travelled under a stratospheric balloon operated by the US space agency NASA for the 'Microbes in Atmosphere for Radiation, Survival and Biological Outcome...
NESSI comes to life at Palomar Observatory
Jan 26, 2020 (JPL)
On Feb. 2, 2018, a handful of researchers began testing an instrument called the New Mexico Exoplanet Spectroscopic Survey Instrument, or NESSI, at the historic...
Some non-photosynthetic orchids consist of dead wood
Jan 24, 2020 (SPX)
A research team consisting of Kobe University's Associate Professor SUETSUGU Kenji (of the Graduate School of Science's Department of Biology), Research Fellow ...
NESSI emerges as new tool for exoplanet atmospheres
Jan 24, 2020 (JPL)
Since February 2018, scientists have been testing an instrument at the Hale Telescope called the New Mexico Exoplanet Spectroscopic Survey Instrument, or NESSI....
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