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'Iceball' Planet Discovered Through Microlensing
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
"This 'iceball' planet is the lowest-mass planet ever found through microlensing," said Yossi Shvartzvald, a NASA postdoctoral fellow based at NASA's Jet Propul...
ISS investigation aims to identify unknown microbes in space
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
Although it's not as exciting as a science fiction movie may depict, the walls and surfaces of the space station do experience microbial growth from time to tim...
What can we learn from dinosaur proteins
Apr 26, 2017 (SPX)
Mary Schweitzer, PhD, professor of biology at North Carolina State University, will present her work on refining methods to extract and responsibly use dinosaur...
In experiments on Earth, testing possible building blocks of alien life
Apr 25, 2017 (SPX)
Claire Mammoser, an undergraduate research assistant in the laboratory of Laura Rowe at Valparaiso University, will present the work at the American Society for...
Rocky super-earth found in habitable zone of small red star
Apr 25, 2017 (SPX)
One of these projects is MEarth, which uses a network of 40 cm telescopes to measure the light from hundreds of stars. In Setember 2014 MEarth detected a possib...
Breakthrough Listen Publishes Initial Results
Apr 21, 2017 (SPX)
Breakthrough Listen has so far acquired several petabytes of data using the Green Bank Radio Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia, Lick Observatory's Automated Plan...
Oceans Galore: Most Habitable Planets May Lack Dry Land
Apr 21, 2017 (SPX)
The author of the study, Dr. Fergus Simpson of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona, has constructed a statistical model - based on B...
Detecting Life in the Driest Place on Earth
Apr 21, 2017 (JPL)
If you can find life here, you might be able to find it in an even harsher environment - like the surface of Mars. That's why a team of researchers from NASA an...
Lack of Oxygen Not a Showstopper For Life
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
While photosynthetic life cannot tolerate the high temperatures of hot springs, microorganisms that are chemosynthetic - meaning they rely solely on chemicals, ...
Newly Discovered Exoplanet May be Best Candidate in Search for Signs of Life
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
This world is a little larger and much more massive than the Earth and has likely retained most of its atmosphere. This, along with the fact that it passes in f...
Potentially Habitable Super-Earth is a Prime Target for Atmospheric Study
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
"This is the most exciting exoplanet I've seen in the past decade," said lead author Jason Dittmann of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). "W...
'Super-Earth' orbiting nearby star boosts search for extra-solar life
Apr 19, 2017 (AFP)
Named LHS 1140b, the planet orbits a star 40 light years away, circling it in the coveted "Goldilocks" zone. This is the distance from a star where the temperat...
Science fiction horror wriggles into reality with discovery of giant sulfur-powered shipworm
Apr 19, 2017 (SPX)
The odd animal doesn't seem to eat much, instead it gets its energy from a form of sulfur. The findings, led by scientists at the University of Utah, Northeaste...
Evidence for Habitable Region Within Saturn's Moon Enceladus
Apr 18, 2017 (SPX)
"Hydrogen is a source of chemical energy for microbes that live in the Earth's oceans near hydrothermal vents," said SwRI's Dr. Hunter Waite, principal investig...
Deep-sea animals make their own light
Apr 18, 2017 (SPX)
Yet few studies have actually documented the numbers of glowing animals at different depths. In a new study in Scientific Reports, MBARI researchers Severine Ma...
Earth-Sized 'Tatooine' Planets Could Be Habitable
Apr 13, 2017 (JPL)
It turns out, such a planet could be quite hospitable if located at the right distance from its two stars, and wouldn't necessarily even have deserts. In a part...
The earliest animals were marine jellies
Apr 13, 2017 (SPX)
For the last decade, zoologists have been battling over the question, "What was the oldest branch of the animal family tree?" Was it the sponges, as they had lo...
Distantly related fish find same evolutionary solution to dark water
Apr 13, 2017 (SPX)
The study, which combined genetic analysis with a 19-year-long selection experiment, supports the idea that the mechanisms of adaptive evolution may be more pre...
'Body awareness' offers further proof of elephant intelligence
Apr 12, 2017 (UPI)
Scientists typically use the mirror test to measure self-awareness. Great apes, dolphins, magpies and elephants are able to recognize themselves in the mirror. ...
'Smart' cephalopods trade off genome evolution for prolific RNA editing
Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)
The study, led by Joshua J.C. Rosenthal of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole and Eli Eisenberg and Noa Liscovitch-Brauer of Tel Aviv University...
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