EXTRA SOLAR

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Cosmic dust reveals new insights on the formation of solar system
Apr 30, 2019 (SPX)
The microbe-sized extraterrestrial particle, which originated from a nova explosion more than 4.5 billion years ago, was discovered inside a meteorite collected...
Rapid destruction of Earth-like atmospheres by young stars
Apr 26, 2019 (SPX)
Fundamentally important for the habitability of a planet is whether or not it can hold onto an atmosphere, which requires that the atmosphere is not completely ...
Slime mold memorizes foreign substances by absorbing them
Apr 22, 2019 (UPI)
Physarum polycephalum can learn to no longer fear a harmless substance that it was previous averse to. The mold can also share knowledge of the substance's harm...
Explosion on Jupiter-sized star 10 times more powerful than ever seen on our sun
Apr 18, 2019 (SPX)
The star is the coolest and smallest to give off a rare white-light superflare, and by some definitions could be too small be considered a star. The discovery, ...
Global Challenge Launched to Build Exoplanet Data Solutions
Apr 18, 2019 (SPX)
ARIEL has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) as its next medium-class science mission and is due for launch in 2028. The ARIEL Data Challenge Seri...
Five Planets Revealed After 20 Years of Observation
Apr 18, 2019 (SPX)
Only a telescope dedicated to the search for exoplanets can carry out such measurements over such long periods of time, which is the case of the EULER telescope...
TESS discovers its first Earth-sized planet
Apr 17, 2019 (SPX)
The new Earth-sized planet is likely a rocky though uninhabitable world, as it circles its star in just 7.8 days - a relatively tight orbit that would generate ...
Astronomers discover third planet in the Kepler-47 circumbinary system
Apr 17, 2019 (SPX)
With its three planets orbiting two suns, Kepler-47 is the only known multi-planet circumbinary system. Circumbinary planets are those that orbit two stars. The...
Powerful particles and tugging tides may affect extraterrestrial life
Apr 17, 2019 (SPX)
The three planets in the habitable zone are likely facing a formidable opponent to life: high-energy particles spewed from the star. For the first time, Federic...
Necrophagy: A means of survival in the Dead Sea
Apr 16, 2019 (SPX)
The geologists drilled a 400-metre hole in the core of the Dead Sea before analysing each layer of sediment and the traces of a strategy that enables bacteria t...
TESS finds its first Earth-sized planet
Apr 16, 2019 (SPX)
Their work is published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. "It's so exciting that TESS, which launched just about a year ago, is already a game-changer in th...
Oil-eating bacteria found at the bottom of the ocean
Apr 12, 2019 (UPI)
An international team of researchers, including scientists from Britain, China and Russia, used a submersible to collect microbial samples from the trench, whic...
Are brown dwarfs failed stars or super-planets?
Apr 10, 2019 (SPX)
Brown dwarfs orbit either one star or travel in isolation in the vast expanse of the Milky Way. Their mass - they are at least 13 times heavier than the planet ...
Samara scientists research how building material for planets appears in the universe
Apr 10, 2019 (SPX)
The team of scientists of Samara National Research University, Florida International University, the University of Hawaii and Lawrence National Laboratory (Berk...
Astronomers find evidence of a planet with a mass almost 13 times that of Jupiter
Apr 10, 2019 (SPX)
Brazilian astronomers have now found the first evidence of the existence of an exoplanet orbiting an older or more evolved binary in which one of the two stars ...
Life Could Be Evolving Right Now on Nearest Exoplanets
Apr 10, 2019 (SPX)
When rocky, Earth-like planets were discovered orbiting in the habitable zone of some of our closest stars, excitement skyrocketed - until hopes for life were d...
NASA researchers catalogue all microbes and fungi on ISS
Apr 09, 2019 (SPX)
Dr Kasthuri Venkateswaran, at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the corresponding author said: "Specific microbes in indoor spaces on Earth have been sh...
Biologists find world's first organism with non-photosynthesizing chlorophyll
Apr 04, 2019 (UPI)
The unprecedented animal is called a corallicolid because it is found in 70 percent of the planet's corals. "This is the second most abundant cohabitant of cora...
Building blocks of DNA and RNA could have appeared together before life began on Earth
Apr 03, 2019 (SPX)
The discovery, published April 1 in Nature Chemistry, suggests that the first living things on Earth may have used both RNA and DNA, as all cell-based life form...
Surviving A Hostile Planet
Apr 01, 2019 (SPX)
Our adaptation is a result of our intellect as well as favourable physical attributes. We can build machines and systems that help us cope with and master natur...
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