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Every Country Gets to Name an Exoplanet and Its Host Star
Jun 10, 2019 (SPX)
Nearly 100 countries have already signed up to organise national campaigns that will provide the public with an opportunity to vote. The aim of this initiative ...
Exomoons may be home to extra-terrestrial life
Jun 06, 2019 (SPX)
Exoplanets are planets outside our solar system and up to this point nearly 4,000 have been discovered. Only a small proportion of these are likely to be able t...
Pair of Fledgling Planets Seen Growing Around Young Star
Jun 04, 2019 (SPX)
"This is the first unambiguous detection of a two-planet system carving a disk gap," said Julien Girard of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, M...
Physicists Discover New Clue to Planet Formation
Jun 04, 2019 (SPX)
"Our research helps us to understand how our 4.6 billion year-old solar system came about, and how we got here," said lead study author Dr. Valentin Christiaens...
Bacteria's protein quality control agent offers insight into origins of life
Jun 03, 2019 (SPX)
A new study from the lab of Claudio Joazeiro, PhD, published on line in the journal Cell on May 30, uncovers how simpler organisms--bacteria and archaea--manage...
ExoMars orbiter prepares for Rosalind Franklin
May 31, 2019 (ESA)
After completing a complex series of manoeuvres during 2017, ExoMars TGO is now orbiting the Red Planet every two hours, collecting scientific data from NASA's ...
The 'forbidden' planet has been found in the 'Neptunian Desert'
May 30, 2019 (SPX)
New research, led by Dr Richard West including Professor Peter Wheatley, Dr Daniel Bayliss and Dr James McCormac from the Astronomy and Astrophysics Group at th...
Microbes Exhibit Survival Skills in Ethiopia's Mars-like Wonderland
May 28, 2019 (SPX)
The samples were collected during a field trip to the Dallol volcano and the Danakil Depression in northern Ethiopia in January 2017, which was funded by the Eu...
Meteor magnets in outer space
May 27, 2019 (SPX)
A UCR-led team has discovered two Jupiter-sized planets about 150 light years away from Earth that could reveal whether life is likely on the smaller planets in...
Features that could be used to detect life-friendly climates on other worlds
May 27, 2019 (SPX)
"Habitable planets by definition have water on their surfaces," said Eric Wolf of the University of Colorado, Boulder. "However, water can come in the forms of ...
New insights about carbon and ice could clarify inner workings of Earth, other planets
May 23, 2019 (SPX)
Craig Manning, a UCLA professor of geology and geochemistry, is a co-senior author of one of the papers, which was published in the journal Nature, and senior a...
Detecting bacteria in space
May 23, 2019 (SPX)
Until now, relatively little was known about the different types of microbes found on the space station. The new approach enables researchers to identify and ma...
New method to find small exoplanets
May 23, 2019 (SPX)
The 18 newly discovered worlds fall into the category of Earth-sized planets. The smallest of them is only 69 percent of the size of the Earth; the largest is b...
Three exocomets discovered around the star Beta Pictoris
May 23, 2019 (SPX)
The main goal of TESS is to search for exoplanets - planets orbiting other stars. The recognition of signals from much smaller exocomets compared to planets req...
Ammonium fertilized early life on earth
May 22, 2019 (SPX)
Life on Earth relies on the availability of critical elements such as nitrogen and phosphorus. These nutrient elements are ubiquitous to all life, as they are r...
NASA Team Teaches Algorithms to Identify Life
May 20, 2019 (SPX)
Without training and sophisticated microscopes, however, these biofilms can be difficult to identify and easily confused with textures produced by non-biologica...
Small, hardy planets can survive stellar end sequence
May 15, 2019 (SPX)
Astrophysicists from the Astronomy and Astrophysics Group have modelled the chances of different planets being destroyed by tidal forces when their host stars b...
Rare-Earth metals in the atmosphere of a glowing-hot exoplanet
May 10, 2019 (SPX)
Exoplanets are planets outside our solar system that orbit around stars other than the Sun. Since the discovery of the first exoplanets in the mid-90's, well ov...
Gravitational forces in protoplanetary disks may push super-Earths close to their stars
May 10, 2019 (SPX)
Now, researchers may have a better understanding how such planets formed. A team of Penn State-led astronomers found that as planets form out of the chaotic chu...
Planetary Habitability? It's What's Inside That Counts
May 03, 2019 (SPX)
A team of investigators with array of expertise ranging from geochemistry to planetary science to astronomy published this week an essay in Science [https://sci...
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