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First Light for Next Generation Planet Hunter ESPRESSO
Dec 06, 2017 (SPX)
For the first time ever, an instrument will be able to sum up the light from all four VLT telescopes and achieve the light collecting power of a 16-metre telesc...
Texas A and M-Galveston team finds cave organisms living off methane gas
Dec 05, 2017 (SPX)
David Brankovits, a student from Budapest, Hungary, who led the research for his Ph.D at Texas A and M-Galveston, and fellow researchers from Mexico, The Nether...
An Orbital Dance May Help Preserve Oceans on Icy Worlds
Dec 05, 2017 (JPL)
"These objects need to be considered as potential reservoirs of water and life," said Prabal Saxena of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland...
The answer to planetary habitability is blowing in the stellar wind
Dec 04, 2017 (SPX)
However, the question of habitability is highly complex. Researchers led by space physicist Chuanfei Dong of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Pla...
Traces of life on nearest exoplanets may be hidden in equatorial trap
Nov 30, 2017 (SPX)
The study indicates that unusual air flow patterns could hide atmospheric components from telescopic observations, with direct consequences for formulating the ...
Newly Discovered Twin Planets Could Solve Puffy Planet Mystery
Nov 30, 2017 (SPX)
Gas giant planets are primarily made out of hydrogen and helium, and are at least four times the diameter of Earth. Gas giant planets that orbit scorchingly clo...
Exoplanet Has Smothering Stratosphere Without Water
Nov 30, 2017 (JPL)
The formation of a stratosphere layer in a planet's atmosphere is attributed to "sunscreen"-like molecules, which absorb ultraviolet (UV) and visible radiation ...
Scallops have 200 eyes, which function like a telescope: study
Nov 30, 2017 (AFP)
Most creatures' eyes have lenses that focus light. But scallops have concave mirrors at the back of their eyes. Scientists have known since the 1960s that Pecte...
Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula reveals a cryptic methane-fueled ecosystem in flooded caves
Nov 29, 2017 (SPX)
The research, conducted by scientists who are trained in cave diving in addition to their other expertise, is the most detailed ecological study ever for a coas...
Researchers prolong life by curbing common enzyme
Nov 29, 2017 (UPI)
Almost all animal cells host the enzyme RNA polymerase III, or Pol III. Previous studies have shown the enzyme to be important to protein synthesis and cell gro...
Scientists identify key factors that help microbes thrive in harsh environments
Nov 29, 2017 (SPX)
"Our work capitalizes on the abundance of genomic and transcriptomic data. Genomic data represent road maps, and genetics, biochemistry, and microbiology are th...
Scientists study Earth's earliest life forms in Nevada hot spring
Nov 29, 2017 (UPI)
The bacteria and archaea living in Nevada's Great Boiling Spring are some of the most ancient single-celled organisms on the planet. By studying these extremoph...
Limited phosphorus recycling can suppress a planet's biosphere
Nov 29, 2017 (SPX)
The research, published online Nov. 22 in the journal Science Advances, also comments on the role of volcanism in supporting Earth's early biosphere - and may e...
First known interstellar visitor is an 'oddball'
Nov 23, 2017 (SPX)
Originally denoted A2017 U1, the body now goes by the Hawaiian name 'Oumuamua, in part because of its discovery by Meech's team using the Pan-STARRS1 survey tel...
Familiar-Looking Messenger from Another Solar System
Nov 21, 2017 (SPX)
In a study carried out with the WIYN telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory and the Nordic Optical Telescope in the Canary Islands, astronomers find that d...
Ancient life form discovered in remote Tasmanian valley
Nov 21, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers from the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment (DPIPWE) and the University of Tasmania made the discovery during a surv...
Space dust may transport life between worlds, research suggests
Nov 21, 2017 (SPX)
Fast-moving flows of interplanetary dust that continually bombard our planet's atmosphere could deliver tiny organisms from far-off worlds, or send Earth-based ...
Lava or Not, Exoplanet 55 Cancri e Likely to have Atmosphere
Nov 20, 2017 (JPL)
Based on a 2016 study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists speculated that lava would flow freely in lakes on the starlit side and become ...
Images of strange solar system visitor peel away some of the mystery
Nov 17, 2017 (SPX)
"It's a really rare object," explains Ralf Kotulla, a University of Wisconsin-Madison astronomer who, with colleagues from UCLA and the National Optical Astrono...
Our Living Planet Shapes the Search for Life Beyond Earth
Nov 16, 2017 (JPL)
"I thought, 'Wow, this is a one-time opportunity,'" del Genio said. "I'll never meet anyone else who found a planet." That prediction was spectacularly wrong. I...
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