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Mar 12, 2018 (SPX)

A molecular cloud is an interstellar cloud of dust, gas, and a variety of molecules ranging from molecular hydrogen (H2) to complex, carbon-containing organics....

Can Space Junk Help Us Find Aliens?

Mar 12, 2018 (Sputnik)

Humanity has left significant amounts of junk floating in Earth's orbit since it began to explore space. However, astrophysicists from the Canary Islands Instit...

Heat shock system helps bug come back to life after drying up

Mar 12, 2018 (SPX)

Now, researchers from an international collaboration including Oleg Gusev of the RIKEN Innovation Center and collaborators from NARO, Kazan Federal University (...

JHU performs first laboratory simulation of exoplanet atmospheric chemistry

Mar 12, 2018 (SPX)

"One of the reasons why we're starting to do this work is to understand if having a haze layer on these planets would make them more or less habitable," said th...

Rare mineral discovered in plants for first time

Mar 07, 2018 (SPX)

Naturally occurring vaterite is rarely found on Earth. Small amounts of vaterite crystals have been found in some sea and freshwater crustaceans, bird eggs, the...

Chemical sleuthing unravels possible path to forming life's building blocks in space

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

The latest study, which featured experiments at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), could help explain the presence...

Do you know where your xenon is?

Mar 02, 2018 (SPX)

The mystery stems from meteorites, which retain a record of our Solar System's earliest days. One type, called carbonaceous chondrites, contain some of the most...

Hubble observes exoplanet atmosphere in more detail than ever before

Mar 02, 2018 (SPX)

Investigating exoplanet atmospheres can provide new insight into how and where planets form around a star. "We need to look outward to help us understand our ow...

When two species become one: New study examines 'speciation reversal'

Mar 02, 2018 (UPI)

In a new study, scientists offer evidence of two distinct common raven lineages merging to become one. Researchers dubbed the phenomenon "speciation reversal." ...

NASA finds a large amount of water in an exoplanet's atmosphere

Mar 02, 2018 (SPX)

Though no planet like this resides in our solar system, WASP-39b can provide new insights into how and where planets form around a star, say researchers. This e...

Tesla in space could carry bacteria from Earth

Mar 01, 2018 (SPX)

NASA's Office of Planetary Protection makes sure spacecraft planning to land on other planets are sterile. Much like an invasive species, organisms from Earth c...

When do aging brown dwarfs sweep the clouds away?

Feb 28, 2018 (SPX)

Brown dwarfs are too small to sustain the hydrogen fusion process that fuels stars and allows them to remain hot and bright for a long time. After formation, br...

Proxima Centauri's no good, very bad day

Feb 27, 2018 (SPX)

MacGregor, Weinberger and their colleagues--the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics' David Wilner and Adam Kowalski and Steven Cranmer of the University...

Alien life in our Solar System? Study hints at Saturn's moon

Feb 27, 2018 (AFP)

The icy orb known as Enceladus may boast ideal living conditions for single-celled microorganisms known as archaeans found in some of the most extreme environme...

Study: Mushrooms became hallucinogenic to keep away insects

Feb 27, 2018 (UPI)

What's so unusual about magic mushrooms is that the species that produce psilocybin aren't closely related. They trace their roots to divergent lineages and boa...

Model based on hydrothermal sources evaluate possibility of life Jupiter's icy moon

Feb 26, 2018 (SPX)

Theoretical research to evaluate the microbial habitability of Europa using data collected from analogous environments on Earth has been conducted by a group of...

Humans will actually react pretty well to news of alien life

Feb 20, 2018 (SPX)

"If we came face to face with life outside of Earth, we would actually be pretty upbeat about it," said Arizona State University Assistant Professor of Psycholo...

Asteroid 'time capsules' may help explain how life started on Earth

Feb 19, 2018 (SPX)

But for researcher Nicholas Hud, asteroids play an entirely different role: that of time capsules showing what molecules originally existed in our solar system....

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Arrives at Kennedy Space Center for Launch

Feb 16, 2018 (SPX)

TESS was delivered Feb. 12 aboard a truck from Orbital ATK in Dulles, Virginia, where it spent 2017 being assembled and tested. Over the next month, the spacecr...

Kepler Scientists Discover Almost 100 New Exoplanets

Feb 16, 2018 (SPX)

"We started out analyzing 275 candidates of which 149 were validated as real exoplanets. In turn 95 of these planets have proved to be new discoveries," said Am...