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Dead planets can 'broadcast' for up to a billion years
Aug 08, 2019 (SPX)
In new research led by the University of Warwick, scientists have determined the best candidate white dwarfs to start their search, based upon their likelihood ...
Hordes of Earth's toughest creatures may now be living on Moon
Aug 07, 2019 (AFP)
These terrifying-sounding beings aren't aliens but instead microscopic Earthlings known as tardigrades, who likely made it out alive following a crash landing o...
Pre-life building blocks spontaneously align in evolutionary experiment
Aug 05, 2019 (SPX)
In the laboratory, under conditions mimicking those on pre-life Earth, a small selection of amino acids linked up spontaneously into neat segments in a way that...
Shining starlight on the search for life
Aug 05, 2019 (SPX)
Our own planet provides some inspiration. Microbes fill the air with methane; photosynthesizing plants expel oxygen. Perhaps these gases might be found wherever...
Distant heavy metal gas planet is shaped like a football
Aug 05, 2019 (SPX)
The new observations, made by an international team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, describe the first known instance of heavy metal gas str...
A chemical clue to how life started on Earth
Aug 02, 2019 (SPX)
We might never know exactly how the process worked, but chemists today have made new discoveries that build upon promising theories for how life formed. "How ch...
TESS uncovers 'first nearby Super-Earth'
Aug 02, 2019 (SPX)
In a new paper in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, a team led by Lisa Kaltenegger, associate professor of astronomy and director of Cornell's Carl Sagan Insti...
Heavy metal gases observed streaming from football-shaped exoplanet
Aug 01, 2019 (UPI)
WASP-121b is a planet of firsts. During an earlier survey, the hot Jupiter became the first exoplanet found with water in its stratosphere. The latest investiga...
Potentially habitable planet found in new solar system
Aug 01, 2019 (AFP)
Three new planets were discovered orbiting GJ 357, a red dwarf -- a small and cooling star -- 31 light years away, relatively close in space terms, said Rafael ...
New method for exoplanet stability analysis
Jul 31, 2019 (SPX)
In this week's Chaos, from AIP Publishing, Tamas Kovacs delivers an alternative method for stability analysis of exoplanetary bodies using only the observed tim...
Microbiologists uncover mechanisms of magnetic bacteria
Jul 31, 2019 (UPI)
The unique species synchronizes its locomotion with the Earth's magnetic field using a chain of spiral-shaped magnetic crystals called magnetosomes. According t...
TESS mission scores a 'hat trick' with three new worlds
Jul 30, 2019 (SPX)
TESS Object of Interest (TOI) 270 is a faint, cool star more commonly identified by its catalog name: UCAC4 191-004642. The M-type dwarf star is about 40% small...
TESS finds 'missing link' planets
Jul 30, 2019 (SPX)
Launched in 2018, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, has found three new worlds around a neighboring star. Stephen Kane, a UC Riverside associa...
Discovery of young planet around bright star sheds light on planet formation
Jul 30, 2019 (SPX)
Known as an exoplanet because it is outside of the solar system, the planet was found as part of NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission. Wh...
Cheops passes final review before shipment to launch site
Jul 30, 2019 (ESA)
All technical evaluations performed by Arianespace on the mission's key aspects, including the launch trajectory and payload separation, have shown positive res...
New space discovery sheds light on how planets form
Jul 26, 2019 (SPX)
Known as an exoplanet because it is outside of the solar system, the planet was found as part of NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission. Wh...
TESS mission completes first year of survey, turns to northern sky
Jul 26, 2019 (SPX)
TESS began hunting for exoplanets (or worlds orbiting distant stars) in the southern sky in July of 2018, while also collecting data on supernovae, black holes ...
Cold, dry planets could have a lot of hurricanes
Jul 26, 2019 (SPX)
A climate as cold and dry as the one in the study is unlikely to ever become the norm on Earth, especially as climate change is making the world warmer and wett...
ELSI scientists discover new chemistry that may help explain the origins of cellular life
Jul 24, 2019 (SPX)
These form a new type of cell-like compartment which can trap and concentrate biomolecules like nucleic acids and proteins. These droplets, unlike most modern c...
Scientists deepen understanding of magnetic fields surrounding Earth and other planets
Jul 13, 2019 (SPX)
The scientists, led by Eun-Hwa Kim, physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), examined a type of wave that ...
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