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Super salty, subzero Arctic water provides peek at possible life on other planets
Jul 13, 2019 (SPX)
On Earth, scientists are studying the most extreme environments to learn how life might exist under completely different settings, like on other planets. A Univ...
Ejected moons could help solve several astronomical puzzles
Jul 12, 2019 (UPI)
Models suggest at least 50 percent of giant moons ejected from their orbits around gas giants, which study authors dubbed ploonets, would survive their initial ...
Astronomers expand cosmic cheat sheet in hunt for life
Jul 11, 2019 (SPX)
Jack O'Malley-James, a research associate at the Carl Sagan Institute, and Lisa Kaltenegger, professor of astronomy and director of the Carl Sagan Institute, co...
A desert portal to other worlds
Jul 11, 2019 (SPX)
"We compared where we had mapped the different lava flows from the ground to where we had mapped the lava flows based on images taken from above by airplanes an...
Discovering Exoplanets with Gravitational Waves
Jul 09, 2019 (SPX)
This new method will overcome certain limitations of current electromagnetic detection techniques and might allow LISA to detect planets down to 50 Earth masses...
Using a 'Cave Rover,' NASA Learns to Search for Life Underground
Jun 28, 2019 (SPX)
That was a typical day for NASA's Biologic and Resource Analog Investigations in Low Light Environments project, also known as BRAILLE, while on deployment. Ope...
Space station mold survives high doses of ionizing radiation
Jun 28, 2019 (SPX)
New research being presented here finds mold spores may also survive on the outside walls of spacecraft. Spores of the two most common types of mold on the ISS,...
Cyanide Compounds Discovered in Meteorites May Hold Clues to the Origin of Life
Jun 28, 2019 (SPX)
Cyanide is thought to be crucial for the origin of life, as it is involved in the abiotic synthesis of organic compounds like amino acids and nucleobases, which...
NASA's TESS Mission Finds Its Smallest Planet Yet
Jun 28, 2019 (SPX)
Two other worlds orbit the same star. While all three planets' sizes are known, further study with other telescopes will be needed to determine if they have atm...
Planet Seeding and Panspermia
Jun 27, 2019 (SPX)
The asteroid/comet-like object named "'Oumuamua" confirmed decades-old scientific expectations that suggested that the interstellar medium is full of loose chun...
ALMA Pinpoints Formation Site of Planet Around Nearest Young Star
Jun 27, 2019 (SPX)
The young star TW Hydrae, located 194 light-years away in the constellation Hydra, is the closest star around which planets may be forming. Its surrounding dust...
Two Earth-like Planets Discovered Near Teegarden's Star
Jun 19, 2019 (SPX)
It is only about 2,700C warm and about ten times lighter than the Sun. Although it is so close to us, the star wasn't discovered until 2003. The scientists obse...
Most Comprehensive Search for Radio Technosignatures
Jun 19, 2019 (SPX)
Listen is performing detailed observations of a sample of 1,702 nearby stars (within about 160 light-years from Earth) using the Green Bank Radio Telescope (GBT...
View of the Earth in front of the Sun
Jun 19, 2019 (SPX)
It is only about 2,700C warm and about ten times lighter than the Sun. Although it is so close to us, the star wasn't discovered until 2003. The scientists obse...
Giant planets orbiting sun-like stars may be rare
Jun 13, 2019 (SPX)
"We suspect that in our solar system Jupiter and Saturn sculpted the final architecture that influences the properties of terrestrial planets such as Mars and E...
The formative years: giant planets vs. brown dwarfs
Jun 13, 2019 (SPX)
The GPI Exoplanet Survey (GPIES), one of the largest and most sensitive direct imaging exoplanet surveys to date, is still ongoing at the Gemini South telescope...
Jupiter-like exoplanets found in sweet spot in most planetary systems
Jun 13, 2019 (SPX)
The location of this sweet spot is between 3 and 10 times the distance Earth sits from our Sun (3-10 astronomical units, or AU). Jupiter is 5.2 AU from our Sun....
Spectral Clues to Puzzling Paradox of Distant Planet
Jun 12, 2019 (SPX)
At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, astronomers Christopher Johns-Krull of Rice University and Lisa Prato of Lowell Observatory presented finding...
Study Dramatically Narrows Search for Advanced Life in the Universe
Jun 12, 2019 (SPX)
In a new study, a UC Riverside-led team discovered that a buildup of toxic gases in the atmospheres of most planets makes them unfit for complex life as we know...
Alien worlds are less hospitable to complex life than scientists thought
Jun 10, 2019 (UPI)
Planetary scientists classify alien planets as being "habitable" or in the "habitable zone" if they're close enough to their host star to keep some of their wat...
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