EXTRA SOLAR

2,688 articles

Scientists crack how primordial life on Earth might have replicated itself
May 16, 2018 (SPX)
A popular theory for the earliest stages of life on Earth is that it was founded on strands of RNA, a chemical cousin of DNA. Like DNA, RNA strands can carry ge...
Orbital variations can trigger 'snowball states' on exoplanets
May 15, 2018 (SPX)
The research indicates that locating a planet in its host star's "habitable zone" - that swath of space just right to allow liquid water on an orbiting rocky pl...
ANU study sheds new light on how our solar system formed
May 11, 2018 (SPX)
Lead researcher Dr Aris Tritsis from ANU said the study visualised the 3D shape of a star-forming cloud called Musca, which appears as a needle in the southern ...
Atmospheric seasons could signal alien life
May 10, 2018 (SPX)
The hunt for life in these places, which are impossible to visit in person, will begin with a search for biological products in their atmospheres. These atmosph...
Dutch astronomers photograph possible toddler planet by chance
May 09, 2018 (SPX)
The researchers suspect that it is a planet in his toddler years that is still growing. The astronomers used the SPHERE instrument on the European Very Large Te...
An Exoplanet Atmosphere Free of Clouds
May 08, 2018 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers, led by Dr. Nikolay Nikolov from the University of Exeter, have found that the atmosphere of the 'hot Saturn' WASP-96b is c...
The Cheops ccience instrument arrives in Madrid
May 04, 2018 (ESA)
The science instrument and its tailor-made handling equipment left Switzerland by truck in six containers, designed to provide protection from shock, moisture a...
Hubble detects helium in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for the first time
May 03, 2018 (SPX)
The international team of astronomers, led by Jessica Spake, a PhD student at the University of Exeter in the UK, used Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 to discover ...
Helium detected in exoplanet atmosphere for the first time
May 03, 2018 (SPX)
An international team of researchers, led by Jessica Spake from the University of Exeter, discovered evidence of the inert gas on 'super-Neptune' exoplanet WASP...
Researchers simulate conditions inside 'super-Earths'
Apr 30, 2018 (SPX)
The team, led by Johns Hopkins University and Princeton University scientists, was the first to simulate, if only for the briefest of moments, the deep interior...
Ultrahigh-pressure laser experiments shed light on super-Earth cores
Apr 26, 2018 (SPX)
Scientists have identified more than 2,000 of these "super-Earths," exoplanets that are larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, the next-largest planet in o...
Molecular evolution: How the building blocks of life may form in space
Apr 26, 2018 (SPX)
These simple molecules are ingredients for the building blocks of life. The experiment tested how the combination of electrons and basic matter leads to more co...
Droids beat astronomers in predicting survivability of exoplanets
Apr 24, 2018 (SPX)
Circumbinary planets are those planets that orbit two stars instead of just one, much like the fictional planet Tatooine in the Star Wars franchise. Tens of the...
Giada Arney Attempts to Answer, Are We Alone?
Apr 20, 2018 (JPL)
Where are you from? I'm from the suburbs of Denver, Colorado. What got you into space? My mom used to do stargazing with me and my sister in our backyard, when ...
Giant group of octopus moms discovered in the deep sea
Apr 19, 2018 (SPX)
"When I first saw the photos, I was like 'No, they shouldn't be there! Not that deep and not that many of them," says Janet Voight, associate curator of zoology...
SpaceX Falcon 9 Lofts TESS Planet Hunter
Apr 19, 2018 (AFP)
"All systems and weather are go for Falcon 9's launch of @NASA_TESS today at 6:61 pm (2251 GMT)," SpaceX said on Twitter. The initial attempt Monday was scrubbe...
Extreme Environment of Danakil Depression Sheds Light on Mars, Titan
Apr 19, 2018 (SPX)
The research trip was supported by the EU-funded Europlanet 2020 Research Infrastructure (RI), which has organised a series of field campaigns over the past two...
We think we're the first advanced earthlings - but how do we really know?
Apr 18, 2018 (SPX)
It's a compelling thought experiment, and one that Adam Frank, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester, and Gavin Schmidt, the direc...
Once upon a time, an exoplanet was discovered
Apr 17, 2018 (SPX)
In a paper published in EPJ H, Davide Cenadelli from the Aosta Valley Astronomical Observatory (Italy) interviews Michel Mayor from Geneva Observatory (Switzerl...
Scientists blast iron with lasers to study the cores of rocky exoplanets
Apr 17, 2018 (UPI)
The experiments have offered scientists unique insights into the core conditions found inside faraway super-Earths. "The discovery of large numbers of planets o...
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.