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NASA study shows disk patterns can self-generate
Jan 17, 2018 (SPX)
Exoplanet hunters watch stars for a few telltale signs that there might be planets in orbit, like changes in the color and brightness of the starlight. For youn...
Hubble finds substellar objects in the Orion Nebula
Jan 15, 2018 (SPX)
Brown dwarfs are a strange class of celestial object that have masses so low that their cores never become hot enough to sustain nuclear fusion, which powers st...
Citizen scientists discover five-planet system
Jan 12, 2018 (SPX)
Over the three years of the K2 mission, 287,309 stars have been observed, and tens of thousands more roll in every few months. So how do astronomers sift throug...
SETI project homes in on strange 'fast radio bursts'
Jan 11, 2018 (SPX)
The observations by the Breakthrough Listen team at UC Berkeley using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia show that the fast radio bursts f...
Ingredients for life revealed in meteorites that fell to Earth
Jan 11, 2018 (SPX)
A detailed study of the chemical makeup within tiny blue and purple salt crystals sampled from these meteorites, which included results from X-ray experiments a...
Iron-Rich Stars Host Shorter-Period Planets
Jan 10, 2018 (SPX)
"Without these detailed and accurate measurements of the iron content of stars, we could have never made this measurement," says Robert Wilson, a graduate stude...
Extraterrestrial Hypatia stone rattles solar system status quo
Jan 10, 2018 (SPX)
(The stone was named Hypatia after Hypatia of Alexandria, the first Western woman mathematician and astronomer). However, if the pebble was not from Earth, what...
Planets around other stars are like peas in a pod
Jan 10, 2018 (SPX)
Thanks in large part to the NASA Kepler Telescope, launched in 2009, many thousands of exoplanets are now known. This large sample allows researchers to not onl...
Chemists discover plausible recipe for early life on Earth
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
Their experiments, described in the journal Nature Communications, demonstrate that key chemical reactions that support life today could have been carried out w...
Discovering the structure of RNA
Jan 05, 2018 (SPX)
In many of these, its structure plays a crucial role. Structure is different and characteristic for each RNA depending on the sequence of specific units, known ...
'SHARKs' will help Large Binocular Telescope hunt for Exoplanets
Jan 05, 2018 (SPX)
INAF, the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, is leading the international consortium that will build the instruments and will also manage their scient...
Which came first: Complex life or high atmospheric oxygen?
Jan 04, 2018 (SPX)
A study by University of California, Berkeley geochemists presents new evidence that high levels of oxygen were not critical to the origin of animals. The resea...
Harvard Astronomer Gives Pointers on Searching for Space Aliens
Jan 02, 2018 (SPX)
Radio Sputnik: Is this a new thought that there are both primitive and intelligent lifeforms out there? Abraham Loeb: Well, a lot of people discuss it, and peop...
Orbital mayhem around a red dwarf
Jan 01, 2018 (SPX)
GJ 436 is a star that has already made much ink to flow, as it hosts a planet nicknamed the hairy planet that evaporates like a comet. In this study, researcher...
Scientists directly observe living bacteria in polar ice and snow
Dec 28, 2017 (SPX)
Gases captured and sealed in snow as it compresses into ice can provide researchers with snapshots of the Earth's atmosphere going back hundreds of thousands of...
'Winking' star 550 light-years away may be devouring wrecked planets
Dec 28, 2017 (SPX)
The star, RZ Piscium, is in the constellation Pisces, and the huge dust clouds appear to be the remains of one or more destroyed planets. During the erratic dim...
Scientists describe how solar system could have formed in bubble around giant star
Dec 28, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists with the University of Chicago have laid out a comprehensive theory for how our solar system could have formed in the wind-blown bubbles around a gia...
Powerful new tool for looking for life beyond Earth
Dec 27, 2017 (SPX)
Although no evidence of life outside of Earth has yet been found, looking for evidence of present or past life on other planets continues to be an important par...
Genes in Space-3 successfully identifies unknown microbes in space
Dec 27, 2017 (SPX)
The Genes in Space-3 team turned that possibility into a reality this year, when it completed the first-ever sample-to-sequence process entirely aboard the spac...
Ancient fossil microorganisms indicate that life in the universe is common
Dec 27, 2017 (SPX)
The microorganisms, from Western Australia, are 3.465 billion years old. Scientists from UCLA and the University of Wisconsin-Madison report today in the journa...
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