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NASA should expand search for life in the universe: NAS Report
Oct 11, 2018 (SPX)
Astrobiology, the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe, is a rapidly changing field, especially in the years since t...
The stuff that planets are made of
Oct 11, 2018 (SPX)
The planetary masses and radii of these exoplanets can be used to infer their mean density, but not their exact chemical composition and structure. The intrigui...
Living organisms find a critical balance
Oct 10, 2018 (SPX)
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Arizona State University has discovered that the answers to these questions may lie in the ability of life to find a...
Construction of Europe's exoplanet hunter Plato begins
Oct 05, 2018 (ESA)
The announcement was made this week at the 69th International Astronautical Congress in Bremen, Germany, where the contract was formally signed. The contract co...
Astronomers find first evidence of possible moon outside our Solar System
Oct 04, 2018 (SPX)
This moon candidate, which is 8,000 light-years from Earth in the Cygnus constellation, orbits a gas-giant planet that, in turn, orbits a star called Kepler-162...
'Spacesuits' protect microbes destined to live in space
Oct 04, 2018 (SPX)
University of California, Berkeley, chemists developed the protective suits to extend the bacteria's lifespan in a unique system that pairs live bacteria with l...
Liquid crystals and the origin of life
Oct 04, 2018 (SPX)
However, liquid crystals may have played a far more ancient role: helping to assemble Earth's first biomolecules. Researchers reporting in ACS Nano have found t...
The only known white dwarf orbited by planetary fragments has been analyzed
Oct 03, 2018 (SPX)
This "debris" passes in front of the star every 4.5 hours, blocking a fraction of the light from the star. Continuous interaction and fragmentation of these chu...
Breakthrough Listen expands SETI to Southern Hemisphere with MeerKAT
Oct 03, 2018 (SPX)
Breakthrough Listen's MeerKAT survey will examine a million individual stars - 1,000 times the number of targets in any previous search - in the quietest part o...
New tool helps scientists better target the search for alien life
Oct 03, 2018 (SPX)
Atrophysics initially wasn't Grimaldi's thing; he was interested more in the physics of condensed matter. Working at EPFL's Laboratory of Physics of Complex Mat...
Cosmologists use photonics to search Andromeda for signs of alien life
Oct 01, 2018 (SPX)
So far, it would seem that intelligent extraterrestrial life - at least as fits our narrow definition of it - is nowhere to be found. Theories and assumptions a...
Did key building blocks for life come from deep space?
Oct 01, 2018 (SPX)
Little was known about a key element in the building blocks, phosphates, until now. University of Hawaii at Manoa researchers, in collaboration with colleagues ...
Plans for European Astrobiology Institute Announced
Sep 27, 2018 (SPX)
The new institute is being created in accordance with the recommendations of a White Paper addressing the scientific and social implications of astrobiology res...
Gaia finds candidates for interstellar 'Oumuamua's home
Sep 26, 2018 (ESA)
The discovery last year sparked a large observational campaign: originally identified as the first known interstellar asteroid, the small body was later reveale...
Bacteria's password for sporulation hasn't changed in over 2 billion years
Sep 26, 2018 (SPX)
The Carnegie Mellon researchers, led by the Department of Biological Sciences' Dannie Durand, used computational and experimental techniques to study how the si...
NASA is taking a new look at searching for life beyond Earth
Sep 26, 2018 (SPX)
Within our solar system, NASA's missions have searched for signs of both ancient and current life, especially on Mars and soon, Jupiter's moon Europa. Beyond ou...
Astronomers use Earth's natural history as guide to spot vegetation on new worlds
Sep 25, 2018 (SPX)
"Our models show that Earth's vegetation reflectance signature increases with coverage of our planet's surface, but also with the age of our planet," said co-au...
The spark that created life
Sep 20, 2018 (SPX)
However, nothing evolves unless it already exists. When life started more than three billion years ago, what was the spark that created something from randomnes...
What Recipes Produce a Habitable Planet
Sep 20, 2018 (SPX)
As any cook knows, it takes the right recipe and getting the right ingredients to make a tasty dish, and the same principle applies to habitable rocky planets, ...
Planet Vulcan Found
Sep 19, 2018 (SPX)
"The new planet is a 'super-Earth' orbiting the star HD 26965, which is only 16 light-years from Earth, making it the closest super-Earth orbiting another Sun-l...
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