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New telescope attachment allows ground-based observations of new worlds
Oct 09, 2017 (SPX)
Penn State astronomers, in close collaboration with the nanofabrication labs at RPC Photonics in Rochester, New York, created custom "beam-shaping" diffusers - ...
Are Self-Replicating Starships Practical
Oct 09, 2017 (SPX)
During the 1980s, the American physicist Frank Tipler claimed that extraterrestrials would build these self-replicating starships, and we should have spotted on...
Biomarker Found In Space Complicates Search For Life On Exoplanets
Oct 06, 2017 (ESA)
The discovery of methyl chloride was made by the ground-based Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, and by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft foll...
The Super-Earth that Came Home for Dinner
Oct 06, 2017 (JPL)
If a planet is there, it's extremely distant and will stay that way (with no chance - in case you're wondering - of ever colliding with Earth, or bringing "days...
Indicator of extraterrestrial life?
Oct 06, 2017 (SPX)
This is the first detection ever of a saturated organohalogen in interstellar space. This result has now been published in the journal Nature Astronomy. Freon-4...
MATISSE to Shed Light on the Formation of Earth and Planets
Oct 02, 2017 (SPX)
The instrument, for which France is responsible under the auspices of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), is international in scope. By observing the proto...
Glenn Tests Thruster Bound for Metal World
Oct 02, 2017 (SPX)
Psyche is different from millions of other asteroids because it appears to have an exposed nickel-iron surface. Researchers at Arizona State University, Tempe, ...
Meteors splashing into warm ponds sparked life on Earth
Oct 02, 2017 (AFP)
The report is based on "exhaustive research and calculations" in astrophysics, geology, chemistry and biology, according a summary provided by McMaster Universi...
Searching for Distant Worlds With a Flying Telescope
Sep 28, 2017 (SPX)
SOFIA is a 2.5-metre telescope, built into a Boeing 747-SP - an American-German project. "The observatory flies somewhat higher than commercial aeroplanes," exp...
Scientists propose new concept of terrestrial planet formation
Sep 21, 2017 (SPX)
A team of scientists from NASA, Hampton University and the University of Hong Kong propose a new way of understanding the cooling and transfer of heat from terr...
The return of the comet-like exoplanet
Sep 15, 2017 (SPX)
The research team focused the Hubble Space Telescope on an exoplanet that had already been seen losing its atmosphere, which forms an enormous cloud of hydrogen...
Teledyne e2v contract to supply light detectors for PLATO planet-hunting spacecraft
Sep 15, 2017 (SPX)
Its instrumentation consists of 26 telescopes mounted on a single satellite platform, reminiscent of the compound eye of an insect. These 26 telescopes make it ...
Hubble observes pitch black planet
Sep 15, 2017 (SPX)
Using the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, an international team led by astronomers at McGill University, Can...
Could interstellar ice provide the answer to birth of DNA
Sep 15, 2017 (SPX)
They found that organic compounds, called amino nitriles, the molecular precursors to amino acids, were able to use molecules present in interstellar ice to tri...
NASA's Hubble captures blistering pitch-black planet
Sep 15, 2017 (SPX)
The oddball exoplanet, called WASP-12b, is one of a class of so-called "hot Jupiters," gigantic, gaseous planets that orbit very close to their host star and ar...
Inferno world with titanium skies
Sep 14, 2017 (SPX)
Using the power of the ESO's Very Large Telescope the experts unearthed unique information about the chemical composition, the temperature and pressure structur...
New prediction of a detection wavelength for searching phototrophs on exoplanets
Sep 13, 2017 (SPX)
One of the most important exoplanetary biosignatures is a specific reflection pattern on the land surface named 'red-edge', which is caused by vegetation such a...
KFU astronomers discovered an exoplanet together with Turkish and Japanese colleagues
Sep 13, 2017 (SPX)
Professor Bikmaev, Chair of the Department of Astronomy and Space Geodesy, commented on the news, "In the course of our 10-year work of searching for exoplanets...
Does the Organic Material of Comets Predate our Solar System?
Sep 13, 2017 (SPX)
The ESA's Rosetta mission, which ended in September 2016, found that organic matter made up 40% (by mass) of the nucleus of comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko, a.k...
Climate change for aliens
Sep 12, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists have yet to discover life, or evidence of civilizations, on these or other planets. But in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, they often ...
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