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Flares May Threaten Planet Habitability Near Red Dwarfs
Jun 07, 2017 (JPL)
To address this question, a team of scientists has combed 10 years of ultraviolet observations by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) spacecraft looking fo...
Discovery reveals planet almost as hot as the Sun
Jun 06, 2017 (SPX)
According to research published in the journal Nature, an international team of scientists, including Justin R. Crepp, Freimann Assistant Professor of Physics a...
Astronomers discover alien world hotter than most stars
Jun 06, 2017 (SPX)
That is what an international research team led by astronomers at Ohio State and Vanderbilt universities think they have found orbiting a massive star they have...
Hubble's tale of 2 exoplanets - Nature vs nurture
Jun 06, 2017 (SPX)
Lead researcher Giovanni Bruno of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, explained, "What we're seeing in looking at the two atmospheres ...
A planet hotter than most stars
Jun 06, 2017 (SPX)
With a day-side temperature of 4,600 Kelvin (more than 7,800 degrees Fahrenheit), planet KELT-9b is hotter than most stars, and only 1,200 Kelvin (about 2,000 d...
Did we miss ET's call
Jun 06, 2017 (SPX)
In recent decades, lasers and photonics have also become important, and the world is covered in fibreoptic cables. This type of communication is hard to detect ...
Citizen scientists uncover a cold new world near sun
Jun 05, 2017 (SPX)
Just six days after the launch of the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 website in February, four different users alerted the science team to the curious object, whose ...
New Collaboration with Jodrell Bank Observatory for SETI
Jun 01, 2017 (SPX)
Breakthrough Listen, the most comprehensive scientific search for intelligent life ever launched, will share information with Jodrell Bank's team, who wish to c...
Giant Ringed Planet Likely Cause of Mysterious Eclipses
Jun 01, 2017 (SPX)
Hugh Osborn, a researcher from Warwick's Astrophysics Group, has identified that the light from this rare young star is regularly blocked by a large object - an...
Viable Spores, DNA Fragments Discovery at ISS Justifies Biosphere's Expansion
May 30, 2017 (Sputnik)
Roscosmos cosmonauts had collected 19 samples of cosmic dust from the surface of the International Space Station (ISS) during spacewalks as part of the space ex...
The race to trace TRAPPIST-1h
May 29, 2017 (SPX)
"We knew that we had to be very fast to be the first ones", says Marko Sestovic, PhD student at the University of Bern's Center for Space and Habitability (CSH)...
Russia thinks microorganisms may be living outside the space station
May 26, 2017 (UPI)
"The micrometeorites and comet dust that settle on the ISS surface may contain biogenic substance of extra-terrestrial origin in its natural form," Roscosmos of...
How RNA formed at the origins of life
May 26, 2017 (SPX)
Nucleotides are essential to all life on Earth as they form the building blocks of DNA or RNA, and understanding how they were first made is a long-standing cha...
Water forms superstructure around DNA, new study shows
May 25, 2017 (UPI)
The adult human body is 60 percent water. It's essential. But how water interacts with biological systems isn't always clear. The latest study -- published in t...
NASA Scientist Parlays Experience to Build Ocean Worlds Instrument
May 24, 2017 (SPX)
Will Brinckerhoff, a NASA scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, helped build a mass spectrometer for the European Space Agency's ...
Scientists propose synestia, a new type of planetary object
May 22, 2017 (SPX)
And at one point early in its history, the Earth itself was likely a synestia, said Stewart, who is a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science...
Kepler Telescope Spies Details of Trappist-1's Outermost Planet
May 22, 2017 (SPX)
They confirmed that the planet, TRAPPIST-1h, orbits its star every 18.77 days, is linked in its orbital path to its siblings and is frigidly cold. Far from its ...
Astronomers Confirm Orbital Details of TRAPPIST-1h
May 22, 2017 (JPL)
TRAPPIST-1 is only eight percent the mass of our sun, making it a cooler and less luminous star. It's home to seven Earth-size planets, three of which orbit in ...
Study shows how radioactive decay could support extraterrestrial life
May 22, 2017 (SPX)
They then applied the model to several worlds with known or suspected interior oceans, including Saturn's moon Enceladus, Jupiter's moon Europa, Pluto and its m...
ALMA eyes icy ring around young planetary system
May 19, 2017 (SPX)
Earlier ALMA observations of Fomalhaut - taken in 2012 when the telescope was still under construction - revealed only about one half of the debris disk. Though...
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