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Are we alone? NASA's new planet hunter aims to find out
Apr 16, 2018 (AFP)
The next opportunity to blast off the $337 million satellite -- which aims to advance the search for extraterrestrial life by scanning the skies for nearby, Ear...
NASA's new planet-hunter to seek closer, Earth-like worlds
Apr 15, 2018 (AFP)
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, is scheduled to launch Monday at 6:32 pm (2232 GMT) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Flori...
An amazingly wide variety of disks
Apr 13, 2018 (SPX)
With SPHERE (Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch) at the European Southern Observatory (ESO), astronomers of ETH Zurich and Max Planck Institu...
What in the World is an 'Exoplanet?'
Apr 13, 2018 (JPL)
The worlds orbiting other stars are called "exoplanets," and they come in a wide variety of sizes, from gas giants larger than Jupiter to small, rocky planets a...
Circumbinary castaways: Short-period binary systems can eject orbiting worlds
Apr 13, 2018 (SPX)
The findings help explain why astronomers have detected few circumbinary planets - which orbit stars that in turn orbit each other - despite observing thousands...
Newly discovered salty subglacial lakes could help search for life in solar system
Apr 13, 2018 (SPX)
The two new lakes are a potential habitat for microbial life and may assist scientists in the search for life beyond Earth. The findings, published in the April...
SPHERE Reveals Fascinating Zoo of Discs Around Young Stars
Apr 12, 2018 (SPX)
The SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile allows astronomers to suppress the brilliant light of nearby stars in order to obtain a bette...
ET Won't Phone Home: Psychologists Say SETI Has Faulty Alien Contact Methods
Apr 12, 2018 (Sputnik)
A group of psychologists from the University of Cadiz in Spain has published an article criticizing alien-seeking scientists involved in the Search for Extrater...
A Cosmic Gorilla Effect Could Blind the Detection of Aliens
Apr 11, 2018 (SPX)
"When we think of other intelligent beings, we tend to see them from our perceptive and conscience sieve; however we are limited by our sui generis vision of th...
NASA's newest planet-hunter, TESS, to survey the entire night sky
Apr 11, 2018 (UPI)
TESS, short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, will be carried into space by SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket on April 16. With a little help from the moon's gr...
Brewing up Earth's earliest life
Apr 10, 2018 (SPX)
What prompted this critical turning point? How did living organisms rally in such a volatile world? And what were the chemical reactions that brewed up the firs...
Outback Radio Telescope Listens In on Interstellar Visitor
Apr 10, 2018 (SPX)
The unusual object - known as 'Oumuamua - came from another solar system, prompting speculation it could be an alien spacecraft. So astronomers went back throug...
Planet hunter TESS will also help astronomers study stars
Apr 09, 2018 (SPX)
There will be much for Kawaler to see at the launch scheduled for the evening of April 16: the firing of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the astrophysicists from the ...
UA-led NASA survey seen as steppingstone for astronomy
Apr 09, 2018 (SPX)
That is the question the Hunt for Observable Signatures of Terrestrial Systems, or HOSTS, Survey was tasked with answering, albeit on a cosmic scale. Using the ...
First Interdisciplinary Conference on Habitability in early solar system
Apr 09, 2018 (SPX)
The "Environments of Terrestrial Planets Under the Young Sun: Seeds of Biomolecules" will be held at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, ...
It's givin' me excitations: U-M study uncovers first steps of photosynthesis
Apr 06, 2018 (SPX)
Now, a University of Michigan biophysicist and her group have been able to image the moment a photon sparks the first energy conversion steps of photosynthesis....
From car engines to exoplanets
Apr 06, 2018 (SPX)
Large planets similar to Neptune or Jupiter, orbiting 50 times closer to their star than the Earth does from the Sun, are thought to be composed of hydrogen-ric...
X-rays could sterilise alien planets in otherwise habitable zones
Apr 05, 2018 (SPX)
Dr Guenther sets out the work in a presentation on 3rd April at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Liverpool. Astronomers now know of around 40...
Computer searches telescope data for evidence of distant planets
Apr 05, 2018 (SPX)
Using the results of that project, researchers at MIT have now trained a machine-learning system to search for debris disks itself. The scale of the search dema...
Winning Exoplanet Rocket Sticker Selected
Apr 05, 2018 (ESA)
More than 300 were submitted to the competition that offered graphic designers and artists the unique opportunity to feature their work on the rocket that will ...
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