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Study could help humans colonise Mars and hunt for alien life
Jun 18, 2018 (SPX)
The study on an organism that survives in inhospitable and low-light conditions could dramatically improve our understanding of photosynthesis, the process by w...
Hawking plea 'to save planet' beamed to black hole
Jun 15, 2018 (AFP)
"It is a very emotional passage," ESA senior science advisor Mark McCaughrean told AFP. "He was not talking about going out to the stars to save humankind, he w...
Astronomers identify 121 giant planets likely to host habitable moons
Jun 14, 2018 (UPI)
Scientists identified the candidates among exoplanet data collected by NASA's Kepler telescope. Kepler's main goal is to help astronomers locate habitable plane...
Chandra Scouts Nearest Star System for Possible Hazards
Jun 11, 2018 (SPX)
A new study that has involved monitoring of Alpha Centauri for more than a decade by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory provides encouraging news about one key as...
Researchers discover a system with three Earth-sized planets
Jun 11, 2018 (SPX)
In the research team led jointly by Javier de Cos at the University of Oviedo, and Rafael Rebolo at the IAC, participate, along with researchers from these two ...
The Clarke exobelt, a method to search for possible extraterrestrial civilizations
Jun 08, 2018 (SPX)
This is, in part, due to the new generation of giant telescopes, presently in the planning phase, which we hope to be able to make a detailed analysis of the at...
Researchers discover multiple alkali metals in unique exoplanet
Jun 08, 2018 (SPX)
The observations of WASP-127b reveal the presence of a large concentration of alkali metals in its atmosphere, allowing simultaneous detections of Sodium, Potas...
Planets Can Easily Exist in Triple Star Systems
Jun 05, 2018 (SPX)
The study, led by Franco Busetti, at the School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Wits, shows that there are large stable areas where exoplanets ca...
Searching for Potential Life-Hosting Planets Beyond Earth
Jun 05, 2018 (SPX)
But which ones, specifically, could harbor organisms? One way to narrow the search for habitable planets is to determine which of the many planets that have bee...
Sorry ET, Got Here First: Russian Scientist Suggests Humans Would Destroy Aliens
Jun 04, 2018 (Sputnik)
A prominent physicist from the National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET), Alexander Berezin, has suggested that the "first in, last out" prin...
How microbes survive clean rooms and contaminate spacecraft
Jun 03, 2018 (SPX)
Rakesh Mogul, a Cal Poly Pomona professor of biological chemistry, was the lead author of an article in the journal Astrobiology that offers the first biochemic...
NASA Dives Deep into the Search for Life
May 31, 2018 (SPX)
Here, NASA and its partners are blending ocean and space exploration, with a project called SUBSEA, short for Systematic Underwater Biogeochemical Science and E...
Linguists gather in L.A. to ponder the Language of ET
May 28, 2018 (SPX)
"We are not expecting a 'Star Trek' universe where most of the aliens are humanoid and lots of them already have a 'universal translator.' So would we ever be a...
A simple mechanism could have been decisive for the development of life
May 28, 2018 (SPX)
Life needs energy. Without energy, cells cannot move or divide, not even basic functions such as the production of simple proteins could be maintained. If energ...
Mars rocks may harbor signs of life from 4 billion years ago
May 28, 2018 (SPX)
These rocks - which formed in lake beds - are the best place to seek fossil evidence of life from billions of years ago, researchers say. A new study that sheds...
Take a Virtual Trip to a Strange New World with NASA
May 25, 2018 (JPL)
We live in a universe teeming with exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. Unfortunately, even the nearest exoplanets are light-years away, so sending ...
Kepler Begins 18th Observing Campaign with a Focus On Star Clusters
May 25, 2018 (JPL)
Campaign 18 is a familiar patch of space, as it's approximately the same region of sky that Kepler observed during Campaign 5 in 2015. One of the advantages of ...
Extrasolar asteroid has been orbiting sun for over 4 billion years
May 22, 2018 (SPX)
This enormous gravitational niche is home to millions of objects, from planets and moons to comets, asteroids and meteoroids. One object differs from all the re...
Planet hunter snaps test image on Lunar flyby on route to final orbit
May 21, 2018 (SPX)
As part of camera commissioning, the science team snapped a two-second test exposure using one of the four TESS cameras. The image, centered on the southern con...
Amateur astronomer's data helps scientists discover a new exoplanet
May 18, 2018 (SPX)
The mass and size of the exoplanet KPS-1b are close to the characteristics of Jupiter, but it is located very close to its parent star. Due to such proximity to...
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