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NASA picks Cornell-led astrobiology science mission as finalist
Dec 27, 2017 (SPX)
Steven Squyres, the James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences in Cornell's Department of Astronomy, will lead the Comet Astrobiology Exploration Sample Retu...
PSI on Two Missions Receiving NASA Concept Development Funding
Dec 22, 2017 (SPX)
Missions selected were Comet Astrobiology Exploration Sample Return (CAESAR), a mission to return a sample from the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, ...
Fungi made life on Earth possible, researchers claim
Dec 22, 2017 (UPI)
Plants serve as the base of most of the food chains on Earth. Along with animals, they dominate almost every ecosystem on the planet. But new analysis suggests ...
Discovery of new planet reveals distant solar system to rival our own
Dec 22, 2017 (SPX)
The newly discovered Kepler-90i - a sizzling hot, rocky planet orbiting its star once every 14.4 days - was found using computers that "learned" to find planets...
Astronomers think 'winking' star is consuming cloud of planetary debris
Dec 22, 2017 (UPI)
Astronomers believe the periodic dimming of RZ Piscium, a star found in the constellation Pisces, is caused by a giant orbiting cloud of dust formed by the debr...
Possible for planets orbiting pulsars to be habitable, scientists say
Dec 22, 2017 (UPI)
Researchers published their theoretical work this week in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. It's the first time scientists have calculated the size of a neu...
NASA Invests in Concept Development for Missions to Comet and Titan
Dec 21, 2017 (SPX)
The agency announced the concepts Wednesday, following an extensive and competitive peer review process. The concepts were chosen from 12 proposals submitted in...
A New Approach for Detecting Planets in the Alpha Centauri System
Dec 20, 2017 (SPX)
According to a study led by Professor Debra Fischer and graduate student Lily Zhao, there may be small, Earth-like planets in Alpha Centauri that have been over...
Spanning disciplines in the search for life beyond Earth
Dec 19, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists from NASA and two universities presented new results dedicated to this task in fields spanning astrophysics, Earth science, heliophysics and planetar...
Cold suns, warm exoplanets and methane blankets
Dec 19, 2017 (SPX)
NASA astrobiologists from the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a comprehensive new model that shows how planetary chemistry could make that happen...
NASA uses AI to uncover eighth planet circling distant star
Dec 15, 2017 (SPX)
The newly-discovered Kepler-90i - a sizzling hot, rocky planet that orbits its star once every 14.4 days - was found using machine learning from Google. Machine...
No alien 'signals' from cigar-shaped asteroid: researchers
Dec 14, 2017 (AFP)
The object, dubbed Oumuamua, was spotted by several Earthly telescopes two months ago. Given its weird trajectory, surprised researchers immediately concluded i...
Life's building blocks observed in spacelike environment
Dec 13, 2017 (SPX)
Investigators at the University of Sherbrooke in Canada have created simulated space environments in which thin films of ice containing methane and oxygen are i...
U of T researcher finds Earth-like conditions in little-known exoplanet - and discovers a new planet
Dec 13, 2017 (SPX)
The researcher, who had set a goal to discover a new exoplanet for his thesis, made the discovery by scouring data collected by the European Southern Observator...
NASA Hosts Media Teleconference to Announce Latest Kepler Discovery
Dec 13, 2017 (SPX)
The discovery was made by researchers using machine learning from Google. Machine learning is an approach to artificial intelligence, and demonstrates new ways ...
A New Spin to Solving Mystery of Stellar Companions
Dec 08, 2017 (SPX)
While taking a picture of a small rocky planet like Earth is still not feasible, researchers have made strides by snapping images of about 20 giant planet-like ...
The CHEOPS scientific instrument is complete
Dec 08, 2017 (ESA)
The Focal Plane Module (FPM), which houses the CCD detector array and the Front-End Electronics, was secured in place on the telescope assembly at the Universit...
WASP-18b has smothering stratosphere without water
Dec 08, 2017 (SPX)
The formation of a stratosphere layer in a planet's atmosphere is attributed to "sunscreen"-like molecules, which absorb UV and visible radiation coming from th...
Two Super-Earths around red dwarf K2-18
Dec 08, 2017 (SPX)
Just as exciting, the same researchers also discovered for the first time that the planet has a neighbor. "Being able to measure the mass and density of K2-18b ...
Discovery about rare nitrogen molecules offers clues to makeup of life-supporting planets
Dec 07, 2017 (SPX)
The Earth's atmosphere differs from the atmospheres of most other rocky planets and moons in our solar system in that it is rich in nitrogen gas, or N2; the Ear...
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