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Scientists look for life's building blocks in outer space
Apr 10, 2017 (UPI)
Researchers at Ruhr-University Bochum are replicating the conditions of outer space to test whether cometary chemical reactions could have yielded complex molec...
Possible Venus twin discovered around dim star
Apr 07, 2017 (SPX)
Astronomers using NASA's Kepler space telescope have found a planet 219 light-years away that seems to be a close relative to Venus. This newly discovered world...
Exoplanet mission gets ticket to ride
Apr 07, 2017 (ESA)
A Soyuz rocket operated by Arianespace from Europe's spaceport in Kourou will boost ESA's upcoming exoplanet satellite into space. CHEOPS will share the ride in...
Atmosphere around super-earth detected
Apr 07, 2017 (SPX)
Astronomers have detected an atmosphere around the super-Earth GJ 1132b. This marks the first detection of an atmosphere around a low-mass super-Earth, in terms...
Astronomers confirm atmosphere around the super-Earth
Apr 06, 2017 (UPI)
Astronomers at England's Keele University have detected an atmosphere around GJ 1132b, a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star located 39 light years ...
Inside Arctic ice lies a frozen rainforest of microorganisms
Apr 06, 2017 (UPI)
Vast Arctic landscapes may appear to be desolate, barren places, but take a look through a microscope and you'll see thriving ecosystems. The top few meters of ...
Researchers uncover a potent genetic element in Earth's smallest life forms
Apr 04, 2017 (SPX)
It's the stuff of science fiction, though there's nothing fiction about it: Researchers have discovered a multitude of previously unidentified microorganisms po...
TRAPPIST-1 flares threaten possibility of habitability on surrounding exoplanets
Apr 04, 2017 (UPI)
To much fanfare, NASA scientists announced the discovery of seven potentially habitable exoplanets surrounding a nearby red dwarf in February. However, new anal...
Sun's UV Light Helped Spark Life
Apr 02, 2017 (SPX)
High energy, ultraviolet radiation from the Sun is a known to hazard to life, yet the energy provided by our star has played an important role as the essential ...
Inventing Tools for Detecting Life Elsewhere with Future Telescopes
Mar 31, 2017 (SPX)
Recently, astronomers announced the discovery that a star called TRAPPIST-1 is orbited by seven Earth-size planets. Three of the planets reside in the "habitabl...
Viruses in the oceanic basement
Mar 31, 2017 (SPX)
A team of scientists from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) showed for the first time that many novel ...
Astronomers identify purest, most massive brown dwarf
Mar 28, 2017 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers has identified a record breaking brown dwarf (a star too small for nuclear fusion) with the 'purest' composition and the hi...
Fledgling stars try to prevent their neighbors from birthing planets
Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)
Newly formed stars are surrounded by a disc of dense gas and dust. This is called the protoplanetary disc, as material sticks together within it to form planets...
Operation of ancient biological clock uncovered
Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)
Ten years ago, researchers discovered that the biological clock in cyanobacteria consists of only three protein components: KaiA, KaiB and KaiC. These are the b...
Protostar blazes bright, reshaping its stellar nursery
Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)
A massive protostar, deeply nestled in its dust-filled stellar nursery, recently roared to life, shining nearly 100 times brighter than before. This outburst, a...
Visualizing debris disk roller derby to understand planetary system evolution
Mar 16, 2017 (SPX)
When planets first begin to form, the aftermath of the process leaves a ring of rocky and icy material that's rotating and colliding around the young central st...
Gigantic Jupiter-type planet reveals insights into how planets evolve
Mar 16, 2017 (SPX)
UCLA, Carnegie Institution astrophysicists get rare peek at a baby solar system 300 light-years away An enormous young planet approximately 300 light-years from...
Fossil or inorganic structure? Scientists dig into early life forms
Mar 16, 2017 (SPX)
An international team of researchers discovered that inorganic chemicals can self-organize into complex structures that mimic primitive life on Earth. Florida S...
Mutants in Microgravity
Mar 15, 2017 (SPX)
Bacteria may mutate more rapidly in space and scientists theorize patterns of those mutations could help predict how pathogens become resistant to antibiotics. ...
Enzyme-free krebs cycle may have been key step in origin of life on Earth
Mar 15, 2017 (SPX)
A set of biochemical processes crucial to cellular life on Earth could have originated in chemical reactions taking place on the early Earth four billion years ...
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