EXTRA SOLAR

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An Earth-like atmosphere may not survive Proxima b's orbit
Aug 01, 2017 (SPX)
At only four light-years away, Proxima b is our closest known extra-solar neighbor. However, due to the fact that it hasn't been seen crossing in front of its h...
Unexpected life found at bottom of High Arctic lakes
Aug 01, 2017 (UPI)
For more than 50 years, scientists from around the world have traveled to Ward Hunt Lake, the northernmost lake in the Canadian Arctic, to study the region or l...
Breakthrough Starshot launches tiny spacecraft in quest for Alpha Centauri
Jul 27, 2017 (SPX)
On June 23, a number of prototype "Sprites" - the world's smallest fully functional space probes, built on a single circuit board - achieved Low Earth Orbit, pi...
Has Cassini found a universal driver for prebiotic chemistry at Titan?
Jul 27, 2017 (ESA)
Titan boasts a thick nitrogen and methane atmosphere with some of the most complex chemistry seen in the Solar System. It is even thought to mimic the atmospher...
Why looking for aliens is good for society
Jul 27, 2017 (TCUK)
The holy grail of all this activity would be the actual discovery of alien life, and such a discovery would likely have profound scientific and philosophical im...
Turbulence in planetary cores excited by tides
Jul 26, 2017 (SPX)
The model infers that instead of being due to large, turbulent molten iron vortices far from the surface, movements in the core are due to the superposition of ...
New study challenges prevailing theory about how deep-sea vents are colonized
Jul 25, 2017 (SPX)
In 2012, scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) used undersea robots to discover a new hydrothermal vent field along the Alarcon R...
New non-photosynthesizing plant species discovered on Ishigaki island, Japan
Jul 25, 2017 (SPX)
Some plant species have abandoned photosynthesis, instead feeding off the roots of host fungi such as mushrooms and mold. These plants (known as mycoheterotroph...
Holographic imaging could sample and identify living microbes in the outer solar system
Jul 24, 2017 (SPX)
This month the journal Astrobiology is publishing a special issue dedicated to the search for signs of life on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. Included is a paper ...
Eyes Wide Open for MASCARA Exoplanet Hunter
Jul 21, 2017 (SPX)
In June 2016, ESO reached an agreement with Leiden University to site a station of MASCARA at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile, taking advantage of the excel...
SETI Institute-Unistellar Partnership Promises to Revolutionize Amateur Astronomy
Jul 21, 2017 (SPX)
Enhanced Vision produces extremely sharp, detailed images of even faint astronomical objects by accumulating their light and projecting it into the telescope's ...
Ancient worm burrows offer insights into early 'ecosystem engineers'
Jul 18, 2017 (UPI)
Fossilized burrows recovered in China deliver a snapshot of a subtle seabed change with significant ecological ramifications. Prior to the Cambrian explosion, a...
A New Search for Extrasolar Planets from the Arecibo Observatory
Jul 17, 2017 (SPX)
This new collaboration will simultaneously observe in both the optical and radio spectrum Barnard's Star, a popular star in the science fiction literature. Barn...
Gulf of Mexico tube worm is one of the longest-living animals in the world
Jul 17, 2017 (UPI)
Escarpia laminata are known to colonize cold seeps on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico at depths between 3,200 and 10,000 feet. The deep-lying tube worms aren't ...
Molecular Outflow Launched Beyond Disk Around Young Star
Jul 14, 2017 (SPX)
Outflows carry away excess angular momentum and it has been proposed that these disk winds should be launched from a wide region in the protoplanetary disk. The...
More to Life Than the Habitable Zone
Jul 14, 2017 (SPX)
The teams, both led by researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Mass., say the behavior of the star in the TRAPPIST-1 ...
Astronomers Track the Birth of a 'Super-Earth'
Jul 12, 2017 (SPX)
In other words, the observed features of many planetary systems in their early stages of formation did not seem to match the type of exoplanets that make up the...
Hidden Stars May Make Planets Appear Smaller
Jul 12, 2017 (JPL)
As telescopes stare at particular patches of sky, they can't always differentiate between one star and two. A system of two closely orbiting stars may appear in...
Big, shape-shifting animals from the dawn of time
Jul 12, 2017 (SPX)
The results, reported in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, could also help explain how life on Earth, which once consisted only of microscopic organisms...
First discovery of an exoplanet with SPHERE VLT
Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)
The instrument, which corrects in real time the terrestrial atmospheric turbulences and occults the light of the star, allows to take a real "photography" of th...
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