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Artificial intelligence helps to predict likelihood of life on other worlds
Apr 05, 2018 (SPX)
The study uses artificial neural networks (ANNs) to classify planets into five types, estimating a probability of life in each case, which could be used in futu...
Giant Clue in the Search for Earth 2.0
Apr 05, 2018 (SPX)
The researchers, led by Research Associate Nikolaos Georgakarakos of the department of physics at NYU Abu Dhabi, report in "Giant Planets: Good Neighbors for Ha...
Ancient origins of viruses discovered
Apr 05, 2018 (SPX)
The study, a collaboration between the University of Sydney, the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre,...
Paucity of phosphorus hints at precarious path for extraterrestrial life
Apr 05, 2018 (SPX)
Greaves has been searching for phosphorus in the universe, because of its link to life on Earth. If this element - with the chemical code P - is lacking in othe...
Earth's stable temperature past suggests other planets could also sustain life
Apr 03, 2018 (SPX)
New research from the University of Washington suggests a milder youth for our planet. An analysis of temperature through early Earth's history, published the w...
Is there life adrift in the clouds of Venus?
Apr 03, 2018 (SPX)
Mars, for example, has geological features that suggest it once had - and still has - subsurface liquid water, an almost sure prerequisite for life. Scientists ...
Characterization of a water world in a multi-exoplanetary system
Mar 29, 2018 (SPX)
These two planets were previously detected by the Kepler satellite (NASA) with the transit method, which allowed researchers to determine the diameter of the pl...
NASA prepares to launch next ExoPlanet mission
Mar 29, 2018 (SPX)
"One of the biggest questions in exoplanet exploration is: If an astronomer finds a planet in a star's habitable zone, will it be interesting from a biologist's...
Hot, metallic Mercury-like exoplanet discovered 340 light-years from Earth
Mar 28, 2018 (UPI)
Though K2-229b is just 20 percent larger than Earth, its mass is 2.5 times greater, making it about as dense as Mercury. The alien planet orbits an active K dwa...
New study shows what interstellar visitor Oumuamua can teach us
Mar 28, 2018 (SPX)
On Oct. 19, 2017, astronomers working with the NASA-funded Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS1) at the University of Hawaii spotte...
Kepler beyond planets: finding exploding stars
Mar 27, 2018 (JPL)
"I just remember on that day, not knowing whether I should believe it or not," he remembers. Rather than celebrate, he thought, "Did I make a mistake? Am I doin...
TRAPPIST-1 planets provide clues to the nature of habitable worlds
Mar 21, 2018 (SPX)
Among planetary systems, TRAPPIST-1 is of particular interest because seven planets have been detected orbiting this star, a larger number of planets than have ...
ESA's next science mission to focus on nature of exoplanets
Mar 21, 2018 (ESA)
ARIEL, the Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey mission, was selected by ESA as part of its Cosmic Vision plan. The mission addresses one ...
Exoplanet mission led by UCL selected as ESA's next medium-class mission
Mar 21, 2018 (SPX)
The ARIEL mission has been developed by a consortium of more than 60 institutes from 15 ESA member state countries, including UK, France, Italy, Poland, Spain, ...
UK team to lead European mission to study new planets
Mar 21, 2018 (SPX)
Thousands of exoplanets have now been discovered with a huge diversity of masses, sizes and orbits, but very little is known about their chemical composition, f...
'Oumuamua likely came from a binary star system
Mar 20, 2018 (SPX)
"It's remarkable that we've now seen for the first time a physical object from outside our Solar System," says lead author Dr Alan Jackson, a postdoc at the Cen...
Team discovers that wind moves microinvertebrates across desert
Mar 19, 2018 (SPX)
An article published March 13, 2018 in Limnology and Oceanography Letters, a publication of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, deta...
NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Nearing the End as Fuel Runs Low
Mar 15, 2018 (SPX)
In 2013, Kepler's primary mission ended when a second reaction wheel broke, rendering it unable to hold its gaze steady at the original field of view. The space...
Study sheds light on the genetic origins of the two sexes
Mar 14, 2018 (SPX)
James Umen, Ph.D., member, Enterprise Rent-a-Car Institute for Renewable Fuels and Joseph Varner Distinguished Investigator at the Donald Danforth Plant Science...
Yale's Expres Instrument ready to find the next Earth Analog
Mar 14, 2018 (SPX)
The new instrument, the Extreme Precision Spectrometer (EXPRES), is now operational and collecting data at the Lowell Observatory Discovery Channel Telescope in...
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