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Europe's exoplanet hunter blasts off from Earth
Dec 18, 2019 (AFP)
The 30-centimetre (12-inch) telescope has been designed to measure the density, composition, and size of numerous planets beyond our solar system -- so-called e...
NYU Abu Dhabi researcher discovers exoplanets can be made less habitable by stars' flares
Dec 17, 2019 (SPX)
In this new study, NYUAD Center for Space Science Research Scientist Dimitra Atri found that not all exoplanets in habitable zones will be able to maintain hosp...
CHEOPS space telescope to investigate extrasolar planets
Dec 17, 2019 (ESA)
In addition to providing on-board hardware, DLR will contribute its extensive expertise in data analysis. The space telescope will examine exoplanets from a Sun...
Breathable atmospheres may be more common in the universe than we first thought
Dec 17, 2019 (SPX)
So how were we so lucky to evolve on a planet with plenty of oxygen? The history of Earth's oceans and atmosphere suggests that the rise to present-day levels o...
Short-lived light sources discovered in the sky
Dec 13, 2019 (SPX)
In the project "Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations" (VASCO), they have particularly looked for objects that may have existed in ol...
OU research group confirm planet-mass objects in extragalactic systems
Dec 13, 2019 (SPX)
Members of the group include Xinyu Dai, associate professor in the Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, OU College of Arts and Sciences, with Ph....
Water common yet scarce in exoplanets
Dec 12, 2019 (SPX)
A team of researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, used atmospheric data from 19 exoplanets to obtain detailed measurements of their chemical and therma...
How planets may form after dust sticks together
Dec 10, 2019 (SPX)
In homes, adhesion on contact can cause fine particles to form dust bunnies. Similarly in outer space, adhesion causes dust particles to stick together. Large p...
Scientists figure out how accumulating dust particles become planets
Dec 09, 2019 (UPI)
In protoplanetary disks, adhesion causes small particles of dust to stick together, just as it causes dust bunnies to form underneath furniture at home. Gravity...
Hidden giant planet around tiny white dwarf star
Dec 05, 2019 (SPX)
The Neptune-like planet orbits a star a quarter of its size about once every ten days, leaving a comet-like tail of gas comprised of hydrogen, oxygen and sulphu...
Signs of life: New field guide aids astronomers' search
Dec 05, 2019 (SPX)
The paper, co-authored with Lisa Kaltenegger, associate professor of astronomy and director of Cornell's Carl Sagan Institute, published in Monthly Notices of t...
Meteorite-loving microorganism
Dec 04, 2019 (SPX)
Meteorites may have delivered a variety of essential compounds facilitating the evolution of life, as we know it on Earth. An international team around astrobio...
Astronomers propose a novel method of finding atmospheres on rocky worlds
Dec 03, 2019 (SPX)
In a series of four papers in the Astrophysical Journal, a team of astronomers proposes a new method of using Webb to determine whether a rocky exoplanet has an...
Animal embryos evolved before animals
Nov 28, 2019 (SPX)
Until now, this question could only be addressed by studying living animals and their relatives, but now the research team has found evidence that a key step in...
Scientists find a place on Earth where there is no life
Nov 25, 2019 (SPX)
The infernal landscape of Dallol, located in the Ethiopian depression of Danakil, extends over a volcanic crater full of salt, where toxic gases emanate and wat...
Life under extreme conditions at hot springs in the ocean
Nov 22, 2019 (SPX)
For about ten years, marine researchers from the Institute of Geosciences at Kiel University (CAU), together with their Chinese and Taiwanese partners from Zhej...
Scientists sequence genome of devil worm, deepest-living animal
Nov 22, 2019 (UPI)
Scientists first discovered the devil worm, which they named Halicephalobus mephisto, in 2008, living in an aquifer nearly a mile underground in South Africa. T...
NASA's TESS helps astronomers study red-giant stars, examine a too-close planet
Nov 20, 2019 (SPX)
Case in point: astronomers using the tools of asteroseismology - the observations and measurements of a star's oscillations, or starquakes, that appear as chang...
First detection of sugars in meteorites gives clues to origin of life
Nov 20, 2019 (SPX)
The team discovered ribose and other bio-essential sugars including arabinose and xylose in two different meteorites that are rich in carbon, NWA 801 (type CR2)...
Exoplanet axis study boosts hopes of complex life, just not next door
Nov 20, 2019 (SPX)
"Multiple-star systems are common, and about 50% of stars have binary companion stars. So, this study can be applied to a large number of solar systems," said G...
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