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Investigating the potential for life around the galaxy's smallest stars
Oct 01, 2021 (SPX)
These planets orbit an M-dwarf, the smallest and most common type of star in the galaxy. Scientists do not currently know how common it is for Earth-like planet...
Planets gone rogue could sustain life
Oct 01, 2021 (SPX)
A Florida Tech scientist believes it's possible based on extensive research he has undertaken over the past several years. In research highlighted this summer i...
Bare Super-Earths offer clues to evolution of hot atmospheres
Sep 29, 2021 (SPX)
In this research, the Subaru Telescope and other telescopes conducted follow-up observations of two planet candidates (TOI-1634b and TOI-1685b, originally ident...
Cloudy days on exoplanets may hide atmospheric water
Sep 24, 2021 (JPL)
Astronomers have found many hot Jupiters with water in their atmospheres, but others appear to have none. Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasade...
Cloud-spotting on a distant exoplanet
Sep 24, 2021 (SPX)
WASP-127b, located more than 525 light-years away, is a "hot Saturn" - a giant planet similar in mass to Saturn that orbits very close to its sun. The team obse...
Webb Telescope to explore forming planetary systems
Sep 24, 2021 (SPX)
Researchers using Webb will observe 17 actively forming planetary systems. These particular systems were previously surveyed by the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub...
Observations in stellar factory indicates start of planet production
Sep 20, 2021 (SPX)
Planets like our Earth form in so-called protoplanetary disks: gigantic disks of gas and dust that surround young stars. Over the past decades, astronomers have...
How planets may be seeded with the chemicals necessary for life
Sep 20, 2021 (SPX)
Dr John Ilee, Research Fellow at the University of Leeds who led the study, says the findings suggest that the basic chemical conditions that resulted in life o...
Planets form in organic soups with different ingredients
Sep 17, 2021 (SPX)
"These planet-forming disks are teeming with organic molecules, some which are implicated in the origins of life here on Earth," explains Karin Oberg, an astron...
Antennas searching for ET threatened by wildfire
Sep 13, 2021 (SPX)
The Dixie Fire, which is currently approximately 12 miles south of the Array, covers just short of a million acres, or an area larger than the state of Rhode Is...
Earthlike planets in other solar systems? Look for moons
Sep 10, 2021 (SPX)
"In our solar system, we have an average of 20 moons orbiting around each planet. So, we suspected there are moons around planets in other systems, too. There i...
The first cells might have used temperature to divide
Sep 07, 2021 (SPX)
"The initial motivation of our study was to identify the main forces driving cell division," says the study author Romain Attal of Universcience. "This is impor...
Cold planets exist throughout our Galaxy, even in the Galactic bulge
Aug 31, 2021 (SPX)
In a study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, researchers led by Osaka University and NASA have used a combination of observations and modeling to ...
New class of habitable exoplanets are 'a big step forward' in the search for life
Aug 27, 2021 (SPX)
In the search for life elsewhere, astronomers have mostly looked for planets of a similar size, mass, temperature and atmospheric composition to Earth. However,...
Scientists say exoplanet 100 light years from Earth may be covered with deep ocean
Aug 24, 2021 (UPI)
The exoplanet -- called TOI-1452b -- is slightly larger than the Earth and is located in a "Goldilocks zone," where temperatures are neither too hot nor too col...
Scientists detect newborn planet that could be forming moons
Aug 10, 2021 (UPI)
Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ALMA, recently detected gas in a circumplanetary disk, the third one ever discovered. Circ...
Did nature or nurture shape the Milky Way's most common planets
Aug 10, 2021 (SPX)
Carnegie's Johanna Teske, Tsinghua University's Sharon Wang (formerly of Carnegie), and Angie Wolfgang (formerly of Penn State University and now at SiteZeus), ...
Small force, big effect: How the planets could influence the sun
Aug 06, 2021 (SPX)
In 2012, Eawag and ETH researcher Professor Jurg Beer published the hypothesis that the planets could influence the activity of the Sun. Together with researche...
New ESO observations show rocky exoplanet has just half the mass of Venus
Aug 06, 2021 (SPX)
"The planet in the habitable zone may have an atmosphere that could protect and support life," says Maria Rosa Zapatero Osorio, an astronomer at the Centre for ...
Astronomers find evidence of possible life-sustaining planet
Aug 05, 2021 (UPI)
The study, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, focuses on a planetary system named after the star it orbits, L 98-59, according to a press release. Using the...
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