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The case of the over-tilting exoplanets
Mar 05, 2019 (SPX)
The finding could have a big impact on how researchers estimate the structure, climate, and habitability of exoplanets as they try to identify planets that are ...
Exiled planet linked to stellar flyby 3 million years ago
Mar 04, 2019 (SPX)
But are stellar flybys really capable of knocking planets, comets and asteroids askew, reshaping entire planetary systems? UC Berkeley and Stanford University a...
Scientists find tanner crabs feeding on seafloor methane vent
Feb 26, 2019 (UPI)
Tanner crabs are a genus of crabs sometimes referred to as queen crabs or spider crabs. All seven species of the Chionoecetes genus are often marketed as "snow ...
New NASA mission could find more than 1,000 planets
Feb 26, 2019 (SPX)
The new telescope paves the way for a more accurate, more focused search for extraterrestrial life, according to researchers. The study, by a team of astronomer...
Researchers discover a flipping crab feeding on methane seeps
Feb 25, 2019 (SPX)
There are many implications, researchers say, and surprisingly most of them are good. Human consumption of tanner crabs - one of three species sold as snow crab...
Astronomers use new technique to find extrasolar planets
Feb 22, 2019 (SPX)
The team demonstrated the effectiveness of the HPF through confirmation and observations of a recently discovered super-Earth orbiting Barnard's star - one of o...
NASA-funded research creates DNA-like molecule to aid search for alien life
Feb 22, 2019 (SPX)
This new molecular system, which is not a new life form, suggests scientists looking for life beyond Earth may need to rethink what they are looking for. The re...
Discovery of Planets Around Cool Stars Enabled with Hobby-Eberly Telescope
Feb 21, 2019 (SPX)
The Habitable Zone Planet Finder (HPF) allows precise measurement of a star's radial velocity, measured by the subtle change in the color of the star's spectra ...
NIST 'Astrocomb' Opens New Horizons for Planet-Hunting Telescope
Feb 20, 2019 (SPX)
NIST's custom-made frequency comb-which precisely measures frequencies, or colors, of light-ensures the precision of starlight analysis by an instrument called ...
New NASA research consortium to tackle life's origins
Feb 15, 2019 (SPX)
One of five cross-divisional research coordination networks with the NASA Astrobiology Program, PCE3 aims to identify planetary conditions that might give rise ...
NASA Selects New Mission to Explore Origins of Universe
Feb 14, 2019 (SPX)
The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) mission is a planned two-year mission funded at $242 m...
Better to dry a rocky planet before use
Feb 12, 2019 (SPX)
Water covers more than two thirds of the surface of the Earth, but in astronomical terms the inner terrestrial planets of our solar system appear very dry - for...
Scientists discover oldest evidence of mobility on Earth
Feb 12, 2019 (SPX)
Discovered in rocks in Gabon and dating back approximately 2.1 billion years, the fossils suggest the existence of a cluster of single cells that came together ...
Study shows unusual microbes hold clues to early life
Feb 08, 2019 (SPX)
Called Hydrothermarchaeota, this group of microbes lives in such an extreme environment that they have never been cultivated in a laboratory for study. A resear...
Massive collision in the planetary system Kepler 107
Feb 07, 2019 (SPX)
The former effect has been observed a number of times in extrasolar systems, but until now there have been no proof of the existence of major impacts, as has ap...
ASU scientists study organization of life on a planetary scale
Feb 06, 2019 (SPX)
In astrobiology, there is an increasing interest in whether life as we know it is a quirk of the particular evolutionary history of the Earth or, instead, if li...
Magnifying glass reveals unexpected intermediate mass exoplanets
Feb 01, 2019 (SPX)
Aparna Bhattacharya, a postdoctoral researcher from the University of Maryland and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), led the team that made the discove...
Where Is Earth's Submoon?
Jan 24, 2019 (SPX)
The duo kicked off an internet firestorm late last year when they posted a draft of their article examining the possibility of moons that orbit other moons on a...
Astronomers find star material could be building block of life
Jan 24, 2019 (SPX)
The researchers report the first ever detection of glycolonitrile (HOCH2CN), a pre-biotic molecule which existed before the emergence of life, in a solar-type p...
Planetary collision that formed the Moon made life possible on Earth
Jan 24, 2019 (SPX)
Earth most likely received the bulk of its carbon, nitrogen and other life-essential volatile elements from the planetary collision that created the Moon more t...
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