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First confirmed image of newborn planet caught with ESO's VLT
Jul 03, 2018 (SPX)
Very Large Telescope (VLT) - one of the most powerful planet-hunting instruments in existence - the international team has made the first robust detection of a ...
Researchers see beam of light from first confirmed neutron star merger emerge from behind sun
Jul 03, 2018 (SPX)
They were rewarded with the first confirmed visual sighting of a jet of material that was still streaming out from merged star exactly 110 days after that initi...
Detecting the Boiling Atmosphere of the Hottest Known Exoplanet
Jul 03, 2018 (SPX)
By all definitions, KELT-9b is a hellish kind of exoplanet: Due to its proximity to an extremely hot host star, the planet itself is the hottest exoplanet yet d...
New Infrared Instrument Searches for Habitable Planets
Jul 03, 2018 (SPX)
Red dwarfs are smaller than the Sun and emit most of their energy as infrared (IR) rather than visible light. But because they are smaller, it is easier to find...
NASA should update policies that protect planets and other solar system bodies
Jul 03, 2018 (SPX)
To prepare effectively for new dimensions of space exploration - including the entry of new international and private sector players and eventual human presence...
Astronomers Discover New Way for Giant Planets to Evolve
Jul 02, 2018 (SPX)
Using supercomputers, researchers at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) and Nagoya University in Japan have analysed how young planets interact with t...
NASA Uses Earth as Laboratory to Study Distant Worlds
Jul 02, 2018 (SPX)
But, these distant worlds are extremely faint and difficult to image directly. A new study uses Earth as a stand-in for an exoplanet, and shows that even with v...
More clues that Earth-like exoplanets are indeed Earth-like
Jul 02, 2018 (SPX)
Kepler-186f is the first identified Earth-sized planet outside the solar system orbiting a star in the habitable zone. This means it's the proper distance from ...
Hardy organisms threaten interplanetary contamination
Jun 28, 2018 (SPX)
To gain access into the uber-sanitized clean rooms at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the world's largest clean room, or the Jet Prop...
Newly discovered Xenomorph wasp has alien-like lifecycle
Jun 28, 2018 (SPX)
The new species, Dolichogenidea xenomorph, injects its eggs into live caterpillars and the baby wasp larvae slowly eat the caterpillar from the inside out, burs...
SwRI scientists find evidence of complex organic molecules from Enceladus
Jun 28, 2018 (SPX)
"We are, yet again, blown away by Enceladus. Previously we'd only identified the simplest organic molecules containing a few carbon atoms, but even that was ver...
Scientists developing guidebook for finding life beyond Earth
Jun 26, 2018 (SPX)
Scientists have identified more than 3,500 planets around other stars (called exoplanets) and many more will be discovered in the coming decades. Some of these ...
Will we know life when we see it
Jun 26, 2018 (JPL)
A group of leading researchers in astronomy, biology and geology has come together under NASA's Nexus for Exoplanet System Science, or NExSS, to take stock of o...
UW part of NASA network coordinating search for life on exoplanets
Jun 26, 2018 (SPX)
The research effort is coordinated by NASA's Nexus for Exoplanet Systems Science, or NExSS, a worldwide network dedicated to finding new ways to study the age-o...
Nearly 80 exoplanet candidates identified in record time
Jun 25, 2018 (SPX)
In a paper that appears online in The Astronomical Journal, the scientists report the discovery of nearly 80 new planetary candidates, including a particular st...
New and improved way to find baby planets
Jun 22, 2018 (SPX)
Of the thousands of exoplanets discovered by astronomers, only a handful are in their formative years. Finding more baby planets will help astronomers answer th...
Distant moons may harbor life
Jun 22, 2018 (SPX)
In a paper published Wednesday (June 13) in The Astrophysical Journal, researchers at the University of California, Riverside and the University of Southern Que...
Hunting molecules to find new planets
Jun 22, 2018 (SPX)
Thanks to this innovative technique, the device is only sensitive to the selected molecules, making the star invisible and allowing the astronomers to observe t...
ALMA discovers trio of infant planets around newborn star
Jun 20, 2018 (SPX)
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has transformed our understanding of protoplanetary discs - the gas- and dust-filled planet factories th...
Study reveals simple chemical process that may have led to the origin of life on Earth
Jun 20, 2018 (SPX)
There are different theories for how life first formed on early Earth. One popular one suggests that life may have arisen in specialized environments, such as t...
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