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Closest temperate world orbiting quiet star discovered
Nov 15, 2017 (ESA)
It is also the closest planet to be discovered orbiting an inactive red dwarf star, which may increase the likelihood that this planet could potentially sustain...
NASA plans mission to study why planets lose their atmospheres
Nov 15, 2017 (SPX)
In the proposed mission that some believe is a potential keystone in the study of the Sun and its effects on planetary atmospheres, the team at NASA's Goddard S...
Astronomers See Moving Shadows Around Planet-Forming Star
Nov 10, 2017 (SPX)
The discovery builds on an earlier publication in which the researchers made one image of the disk. By making multiple images, the astronomers clearly saw varia...
Scientists find potential 'missing link' in chemistry that led to life on earth
Nov 07, 2017 (SPX)
Origins-of-life researchers have hypothesized that a chemical reaction called phosphorylation may have been crucial for the assembly of three key ingredients in...
18-Month Twinkle in a Forming Star Suggests a Very Young Planet
Nov 07, 2017 (SPX)
This discovery is an early win for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) Transient Survey, just one-and-a-half years into its three-year mandate to monitor e...
Atmospheric beacons guide NASA scientists in search for life
Nov 03, 2017 (SPX)
Traditionally, researchers have sought potential biosignatures as ways of identifying inhabited worlds: byproducts from life as we know it such as oxygen or met...
Overlooked Treasure: The First Evidence of Exoplanets
Nov 02, 2017 (JPL)
Carnegie Observatories hosts 250,000 photographic plates taken at Mount Wilson, Palomar and Las Campanas observatories, spanning more than 100 years. In their h...
Scientists discover new type of deep-sea hunting called kleptopredation
Nov 01, 2017 (UPI)
As new research shows, sea slugs are the pirates of the seafloor, attacking prey in their post-meal malaise in order to steal the meal their target just consume...
'Monster' planet discovery challenges formation theory
Nov 01, 2017 (SPX)
The existence of the 'monster' planet, 'NGTS-1b', challenges theories of planet formation which state that a planet of this size could not be formed around such...
Evolutionary theory suggests aliens might not look all that alien
Nov 01, 2017 (UPI)
But new research suggests alien life forms wouldn't necessarily be exotic or especially strange. Aliens might, in fact, look familiar. Some might even look like...
Astronomers discover sunscreen snow falling on hot exoplanet
Oct 27, 2017 (SPX)
This discovery, and other observations made by the Penn State team, provide insight into the complexity of weather and atmospheric composition on exoplanets, an...
Citizen scientist spots comet tails streaking past distant star
Oct 27, 2017 (SPX)
The discovery marks the first time that the presence of an object as small as a comet has been inferred by observing dips in the intensity of light from a star....
One small doorstep for man: Cosmic mat welcomes aliens
Oct 27, 2017 (AFP)
Dubbed the "Cosmic Welcome Mat" it features swirls of red, sky blue, and violet against a black border, and is meant to convey a warm reception to all sentient ...
Comet mission reveals 'missing link' in our understanding of planet formation
Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)
A research team led by Jurgen Blum (Technische Universitat Braunschweig, Germany) have analysed data from the historic Rosetta mission to uncover how comet 67P/...
Marine microbes living beneath seabed resort to cannibalism
Oct 25, 2017 (UPI)
In an effort to better understand how microorganisms break down carbon trapped in the sediments at the bottom of the ocean, a team of researchers at the Ludwig-...
New NASA study improves search for habitable worlds
Oct 20, 2017 (SPX)
Previous models simulated atmospheric conditions along one dimension, the vertical. Like some other recent habitability studies, the new research used a model t...
From Comets Come Planets
Oct 20, 2017 (SPX)
Estimating the mass of these rings from the amount of light they reflect shows that each of these developing planets is at least the size of a few Earths, accor...
A star that devoured its own planets
Oct 17, 2017 (SPX)
"Even if our sun ate the entire inner solar system, it wouldn't come close to the anomaly we see in this star," says study coauthor David Hogg, group leader for...
Astronomers find potential solution into how planets form
Oct 17, 2017 (SPX)
A new study by an international team of scientists, led by Stefan Kraus from the University of Exeter, has given a fascinating new insight into one of the most ...
Giant Exoplanet Hunters: Look for Debris Disks
Oct 17, 2017 (JPL)
A new study finds that giant exoplanets that orbit far from their stars are more likely to be found around young stars that have a disk of dust and debris than ...
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