EXTRA SOLAR

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Impact of a stellar intruder on our solar system
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
Susanne Pfalzner from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, and her colleagues present a study showing that a close fly-by of a neighbo...
Tiny tunnels inside garnets appear to be the result of boring microorganisms
Aug 09, 2018 (SPX)
Endolithic organisms are those that live inside a substrate, be it mineral, wood, bone, or some other material. Some microbes move into pre-existing cavities wh...
Largest haul of extrasolar planets for Japan
Aug 08, 2018 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers pooled data from U.S. space agency NASA's Kepler and the European Space Agency (ESA)'s Gaia space telescopes, as well as gr...
TESS catches a comet before starting planet hunting mission
Aug 07, 2018 (SPX)
Taken over the course of 17 hours on July 25, these TESS images helped demonstrate the satellite's ability to collect a prolonged set of stable periodic images ...
VLA Detects Possible Extrasolar Planetary-Mass Magnetic Powerhouse
Aug 06, 2018 (SPX)
"This object is right at the boundary between a planet and a brown dwarf , or 'failed star,' and is giving us some surprises that can potentially help us unders...
Exoplanets where life could develop as on Earth
Aug 03, 2018 (SPX)
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC LMB), found that the chances for life to...
Exoplanet detectives create reference catalog of spectra and geometric albedos
Aug 02, 2018 (SPX)
Cornell University researchers have created a reference catalog using calibrated spectra and geometric albedos - the light reflected by a surface - of 19 of the...
NASA's TESS spacecraft starts science operations
Jul 30, 2018 (SPX)
TESS is expected to transmit its first series of science data back to Earth in August, and thereafter periodically every 13.5 days, once per orbit, as the space...
How Can You Tell If That ET Story Is Real
Jul 25, 2018 (SPX)
First developed in 2001, the Rio Scale is a tool used by astronomers searching for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) to help communicate to the public 'how ex...
WSU researcher sees possibility of moon life
Jul 24, 2018 (SPX)
In fact, there may have been two early windows of habitability for Earth's Moon, according to a study online in the journal Astrobiology by Dirk Schulze-Makuch,...
Glowing bacteria on deep-sea fish shed light on evolution, 'third type' of symbiosis
Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)
Female anglerfish sport a glowing lure on top of their foreheads, basically a pole with a light bulb on its end, where bioluminescent bacteria live. The light-e...
Origami-inspired device helps marine biologists study aliens
Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)
A new device developed by researchers at Harvard University's Wyss Institute, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Radcliffe Insti...
X-ray Data May Be First Evidence of a Star Devouring a Planet
Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)
In recent years, astronomers have observed the star dimming more frequently, and for longer periods, raising the question: What is repeatedly obscuring the star...
Finding a Planet with a 10-Year Orbit in a Few Months
Jul 18, 2018 (SPX)
To overcome this obstacle, a team of astronomers under the direction of the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have developed a method that makes it possible to ensur...
Astronomers find a famous exoplanet's doppelganger
Jul 17, 2018 (SPX)
"We have found a gas-giant planet that is a virtual twin of a previously known planet, but it looks like the two objects formed in different ways," said Trent D...
TESS Spacecraft Continues Testing Prior to First Observations
Jul 12, 2018 (SPX)
The TESS team has reported that the spacecraft and cameras are in good health, and the spacecraft has successfully reached its final science orbit. The team con...
NASA's Webb Space Telescope to Inspect Atmospheres of Gas Giant Exoplanets
Jul 12, 2018 (SPX)
Some of Webb's first observations of gas giant exoplanets will be conducted through the Director's Discretionary Early Release Science program. The transiting e...
Rocky planet neighbor looks familiar, but is not Earth's twin
Jul 11, 2018 (SPX)
Understanding which elements are present in a star in what abundances can help researchers estimate the makeup of the exoplanets that orbit them, which can help...
NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Pauses Science Observations to Download Science Data
Jul 10, 2018 (SPX)
Since May 12, Kepler has been on its 18th observation campaign, staring at a patch of sky towards the constellation of Cancer it previously studied in 2015. The...
Airbus completes the integration of CHEOPS satellite
Jul 04, 2018 (SPX)
Cheops will study these planets using a Ritchey-Chretien Telescope supplied by the University of Bern, in Switzerland. It was integrated last month at Airbus' M...
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