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Light From An Ultra-Cool Neighbor
Mar 13, 2017 (SPX)
This animation shows the amount of light detected by each pixel in a small section of the camera onboard NASA's Kepler space telescope. The light collected from...
Could fast radio bursts be powering alien probes
Mar 13, 2017 (SPX)
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence has looked for many different signs of alien life, from radio broadcasts to laser flashes, without success. However...
Kepler Provides Another Peek at Ultra-cool Neighbor
Mar 09, 2017 (JPL)
On Feb. 22, astronomers announced that the ultra-cool dwarf star, TRAPPIST-1, hosts a total of seven Earth-size planets that are likely rocky, a discovery made ...
Biochemical 'fossil' shows how life may have emerged without phosphate
Mar 03, 2017 (SPX)
One major mystery about life's origin is how phosphate became an essential building block of genetic and metabolic machinery in cells, given its poor accessibil...
Faraway Planet Systems Are Shaped Like the Solar System
Mar 03, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have found that far-away planet systems are shaped like the solar system, with multiple planets aligning...
Hunting for giant planet analogs in our own backyard
Mar 03, 2017 (SPX)
There may be a large number of undetected bright, substellar objects similar to giant exoplanets in our own solar neighborhood, according to new work from a tea...
The missing link in how planets form
Mar 01, 2017 (SPX)
A French-UK-Australian team of astronomers may have discovered in planet formation that explains how initial dust develops into planetary systems. Using numeric...
Dust Traps: Missing Link in Planet Formation
Feb 28, 2017 (SPX)
Planets are thought to form in the disks of dust and gas found around young stars. But astronomers have struggled to assemble a complete theory of their origin ...
Volcanic hydrogen spurs chances of finding exoplanet life
Feb 28, 2017 (SPX)
Hunting for habitable exoplanets now may be easier: Cornell University astronomers report that hydrogen pouring from volcanic sources on planets throughout the ...
Evidence of Star Wars-like Planetary System
Feb 27, 2017 (SPX)
Evidence of planetary debris surrounding a double sun in a Star Wars-like system has been found by a team of researchers including scientists from the Universit...
Does Pluto Have The Ingredients For Life?
Feb 24, 2017 (SPX)
Pluto has long been viewed as a distant, cold and mostly dead world, but the first spacecraft to pass by it last year revealed many surprises about this distant...
Prediction: More gas-giants will be found orbiting Sun-like stars
Feb 22, 2017 (SPX)
New planetary formation models from Carnegie's Alan Boss indicate that there may be an undiscovered population of gas giant planets orbiting around Sun-like sta...
Spitzer reveals largest batch of earth-size, habitable-zone planets around single star
Feb 22, 2017 (JPL)
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. Three of these planets are firmly located i...
Ancient microbes push limits of what life can survive on Earth, and off
Feb 22, 2017 (Sputnik)
NASA has revived a bunch of very odd microbial creatures from a slumber of tens of thousands of years - and what they've discovered about how tenacious and stra...
Excited reports of 'habitable planets' need to come back down to Earth
Feb 22, 2017 (SPX)
In 1950, physicist Enrico Fermi famously asked, "Where are they?" as a kind of lament about the lack of observational evidence for alien intelligence in our uni...
Seven Terrestrial Exoplanets Around a Nearby Star
Feb 22, 2017 (SPX)
TRAPPIST-1 is the name of the small, ultracool star that is the new hot topic in astronomy and the search for life outside our solar system. Observing the star ...
Seven Earth-like planets discovered around single star
Feb 22, 2017 (AFP)
Researchers announced Wednesday the stunning discovery of seven Earth-like planets orbiting a small star in our galaxy, opening up the most promising hunting gr...
Ultracool Dwarf and the Seven Planets
Feb 22, 2017 (SPX)
Astronomers have found a system of seven Earth-sized planets just 40 light-years away. Using ground and space telescopes, including ESO's Very Large Telescope, ...
From Rocks, Evidence of a 'Chaotic Solar System'
Feb 22, 2017 (SPX)
Plumbing a 90 million-year-old layer cake of sedimentary rock in Colorado, a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Northwestern Univer...
NASA to host news conference on discovery beyond our solar system
Feb 21, 2017 (JPL)
NASA will hold a news conference at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST) Wednesday, Feb. 22, to present new findings on planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known a...
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