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Radio Detection of Lonely Planet Disk Shows Similarity with Stars
May 19, 2017 (SPX)
This detection yielded mass estimates for the dust contained in the disk, which place OTS44 in a row with stars and brown dwarfs (that is, failed stars with too...
New study sheds light on origins of life on Earth through molecular function
May 19, 2017 (SPX)
One popular hypothesis suggests that ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules, which contain the genetic blueprints for proteins and can perform simple chemical reactio...
Metabolism, not RNA, jump-started life's molecular beginnings
May 17, 2017 (UPI)
Some scientists have hypothesized that ribonucleic acid molecules, or RNA, jump-started life. But others say RNA is too big and complex to have come first. Inst...
Variable Winds on Hot Giant Exoplanet Help Study of Magnetic Field
May 16, 2017 (SPX)
HAT-P-7b was discovered by NASA's Kepler Mission in 2008. It is nearly 40 percent larger and nearly 80 percent more massive than Jupiter. It orbits its star eve...
New 'styrofoam' planet provides tools in search for habitable planets
May 16, 2017 (SPX)
"It is highly inflated, so that while it's only a fifth as massive as Jupiter, it is nearly 40 percent larger, making it about as dense as styrofoam, with an ex...
Oldest evidence of life on land found in 3.48-billion-year-old Australian rocks
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
Previously, the world's oldest evidence for microbial life on land came from 2.7- 2.9 billion year old deposits in South Africa containing organic matter-rich a...
'Warm Neptune' Has Unexpectedly Primitive Atmosphere
May 15, 2017 (JPL)
The analysis is one of the most detailed studies to date of a "warm Neptune," or a planet that is Neptune-sized and close to its star. The researchers determine...
Primitive Atmosphere Found Around 'Warm Neptune'
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
A team of international researchers, co-lead by Hannah Wakeford from NASA and Professor David Sing from the University of Exeter, has carried out one of the mos...
Bacteria living in marine sponge produce toxic compounds found in man-made products
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
The new findings, by scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) at the University of California, San Diego, moved the research team a step clos...
Astrophysicists find that planetary harmonies around TRAPPIST-1 save it from destruction
May 11, 2017 (SPX)
"If you simulate the system, the planets start crashing into one another in less than a million years," says Dan Tamayo, a postdoc at U of T Scarborough's Centr...
Taking the pulse of an ocean world
May 10, 2017 (SPX)
Slightly smaller than our own moon, Europa could hardly appear more different. Both have interiors of rock and metal. But Europa is wrapped in a global saltwate...
When a brown dwarf is actually a planetary mass object
May 10, 2017 (SPX)
Their results are published by The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Smaller than stars, but bigger than giant planets, brown dwarfs are too small to sustain the h...
Two Webb instruments well suited for detecting exoplanet atmospheres
May 10, 2017 (SPX)
"We wanted to know which combination of observing modes (of Webb) gets you the maximum information content for the minimum cost," says Natasha Batalha, graduate...
First SETI Institute Fellows Announced
May 09, 2017 (SPX)
More than 30 years the SETI Institute has been asking questions such as, "How does life begin?"; "How does intelligence evolve?"; "Are there other planets like ...
Lasers shed light on the inner workings of the giant larvacean
May 09, 2017 (SPX)
Larvaceans play a significant role in moving carbon from the upper part of the ocean down into the deep sea. They build balloon-like mucus structures called "ho...
Nearby Star Confirmed as Good Model of Our Early Solar System
May 03, 2017 (SPX)
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy aircraft was just beginning the second half of an overnight mission on Jan. 28, 2015. It turned north for a...
SOFIA Confirms Nearby Planetary System Is Similar to Our Own
May 03, 2017 (SPX)
Located 10.5 light-years away in the southern constellation Eridanus, the star Epsilon Eridani, Eps Eri for short, is the closest planetary system around a star...
Next Breakthroughs in Exoplanet Discovery
May 02, 2017 (SPX)
Noting how, "The search for life in the Universe has been transformed from speculation to a data-driven science," speakers like Stanford physicist Peter Michels...
'On Verge of Most Profound Discovery Ever,' NASA Tells US Congress
Apr 28, 2017 (Sputnik)
Humanity stands on the verge of one of its most profound ever discoveries, that of alien life, NASA astrophysicist Thomas Zurbachen told the US House of Represe...
Research Center A Hub For Origins of Life Studies
Apr 28, 2017 (SPX)
But putting together some of the pieces of the puzzle has not led to any breakthrough moment when the process could be described as understood. As a sign of how...
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