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X-rays Reveal Temperament of Possible Planet-hosting Stars
Sep 12, 2017 (SPX)
Since stellar X-rays mirror magnetic activity, X-ray observations can tell astronomers about the high-energy environment around the star. In the new study the X...
Are we being watched? Tens of other worlds could spot the Earth
Sep 12, 2017 (SPX)
Thanks to facilities and missions such as SuperWASP and Kepler, we have now discovered thousands of planets orbiting stars other than our Sun, worlds known as '...
NASA Team Passes Major Technological Milestone for Characterizing Exoplanets
Sep 11, 2017 (SPX)
In tests conducted at the High-Contrast Imaging Testbed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, or JPL, in Pasadena, California - one of the world's most advanced ...
Could TRAPPIST-1's Seven Earth-size Planets Have Gas Giant Siblings
Sep 07, 2017 (SPX)
Earlier this year, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope thrilled the world as it revealed that TRAPPIST-1, an ultra-cool dwarf star in the Aquarius constellation, was...
X-Rays Reveal Temperament of Possible Planet-Hosting Stars
Sep 07, 2017 (SPX)
A team of researchers used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton to see how the X-ray brightness of stars similar to the Sun behaves o...
Earth as Hybrid Planet: The Anthropocene Era in Astrobiological Context
Sep 07, 2017 (SPX)
They sorted the hypothetical worlds into three types according to a scheme named in 1964 for Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev. A Type 1 civilization could ma...
FINESSE Mission to Investigate Atmospheres of Hundreds of Alien Worlds
Sep 05, 2017 (SPX)
FINESSE has been recently chosen by NASA for concept studies and evaluations. It is one of the agency's six astrophysics Explorers Program proposals that could ...
X-ray footprinting solves mystery of metal-breathing protein
Sep 04, 2017 (SPX)
The research, conducted by a team of scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), could lead to new innovation...
Ultraviolet Light May Be Ultra Important in Search for Life
Sep 01, 2017 (SPX)
A new study by Sukrit Ranjan of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Mass., and colleagues suggests that red dwarf stars might no...
Hubble delivers first hints of possible water content of TRAPPIST-1 planets
Sep 01, 2017 (SPX)
On 22 February 2017 astronomers announced the discovery of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, 40 light-years away [1]. This...
15 Fast Radio Bursts Detected from Distant Universe
Aug 31, 2017 (SPX)
In 2015, it was the first FRB seen to repeat, ruling out theories of the bursts' origins that involved the catastrophic destruction of the progenitor (at least ...
Scientists take first snapshots of a molecular propeller that runs at 100 degrees Celsius
Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)
An international team of experts, led by Dr Bertram Daum of the University of Exeter's Living System Institute, have revealed the structure of the unique whip-l...
Earth-like planet in star system only 16 light years away
Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)
The team investigated the star system Gliese 832 for additional exoplanets residing between the two currently known alien worlds in this system. Their computati...
Tidally locked exoplanets may be more common than previously thought
Aug 16, 2017 (SPX)
Barnes, a UW assistant professor of astronomy and astrobiology, arrived at the finding by questioning the long-held assumption that only those stars that are mu...
Deep-sea animals eating plastic fibers from clothing
Aug 15, 2017 (UPI)
Now scientists have discovered that meiofauna are also consuming microscopic pieces of plastic that have filtered down to the seafloor as plastic trash on the s...
TRAPPIST-1 twice as old as our solar system
Aug 11, 2017 (UPI)
Scientists believe the star and its exoplanets are between 5.4 and 9.8 billion years old -- as much as twice as old as our solar system. The sun was born 4.5 bi...
Scientists find four Earth-like exoplanets orbiting closest sun-like star
Aug 09, 2017 (UPI)
The four planets are the closest Earth-like worlds yet discovered. And at just 1.7 Earth masses, they're also the smallest nearby Earth-like planets. Astronomer...
Hubble detects exoplanet with glowing water atmosphere
Aug 03, 2017 (SPX)
An international team of researchers, led by the University of Exeter, made the new discovery by observing glowing water molecules in the atmosphere of the exop...
Researchers detect exoplanet with glowing water atmosphere
Aug 03, 2017 (SPX)
An international team of researchers, led by the University of Exeter with contributions from the University of Maryland, made the new discovery by observing gl...
NASA hiring a planetary protection officer to guard against alien invaders
Aug 03, 2017 (UPI)
The job is simple: prevent "biological contamination in human and robotic space exploration." The planetary protection officer will be tasked with keeping alien...
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