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Nightside radio could help reveal exoplanet details
Jun 23, 2021 (SPX)
The study by Rice alumnus Anthony Sciola, who earned his Ph.D. this spring and was mentored by co-author and space plasma physicist Frank Toffoletto, shows that...
SpaceML.org aims to accelerate AI application in space science and exploration
Jun 18, 2021 (SPX)
The SpaceML Repo is a machine learning toolbox and community managed resource to enable researchers to more effectively engage in AI for space science and explo...
Study of young chaotic star system reveals planet formation secrets
Jun 18, 2021 (SPX)
Protoplanetary disks - planet-forming disks made of gas and dust that surround newly formed young stars - are known to scientists as the birthplace of planets. ...
Researchers discover orbital patterns of trans-Neptunian objects
Jun 18, 2021 (SPX)
A new study led by Mohamad Ali-Dib, a research scientist at the NYU Abu Dhabi Center for Astro, Particle, and Planetary Physics, reports the significant discove...
NASA mission discovers 2 Earth-like exoplanets
Jun 16, 2021 (UPI)
The space agency's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite mission, or TESS, said the planets are 33 light-years away, some of the closest rocky exoplanets ever f...
China says it detected alien signals using giant 'Sky Eye' telescope
Jun 15, 2021 (UPI)
Science and Technology Daily, the official newspaper of China's Ministry of Science and Technology, reported Tuesday that the team of scientists from Beijing No...
Connecting a star's chemical composition and planet formation
Jun 11, 2021 (SPX)
The researchers found that the majority of stars in their dataset are similar in composition to the sun, somewhat at odds with earlier work and implying that ma...
Scientists discover new exoplanet with an atmosphere ripe for study
Jun 10, 2021 (SPX)
The research, titled TOI-1231 b: A Temperate, Neptune-Sized Planet Transiting the Nearby M3 Dwarf NLTT 24399, will be published in a future issue of The Astrono...
Liquid water on exomoons of free-floating planets
Jun 10, 2021 (SPX)
Water - in liquid form - is the elixir of life. It made life possible on Earth and is indispensable for the continuing existence of living systems on the planet...
Frozen rotifer reanimated after 24,000 years in the Arctic tundra
Jun 07, 2021 (UPI)
According to new research, Bdelloid rotifers, a class of microscopic invertebrates, can remain frozen for thousands of years and survive. Recently, researchers ...
Did heat from impacts on asteroids provide the ingredients for life on Earth?
Jun 04, 2021 (SPX)
The research group consisted of the following members from Kobe University's Graduate School of Science; Lecturer YASUI Minami, TAZAWA Taku (a 2nd year masters ...
Scientists develop new molecular tool to detect alien life
May 31, 2021 (SPX)
In a new paper recently published in Nature Communications, a team of scientists describes a universal approach to life detection including a system that could ...
Deep oceans dissolve the rocky shell of water-ice planets
May 27, 2021 (SPX)
The conditions with pressures of hundred thousand atmospheres and temperatures above one thousand degrees Celsius were recreated in a lab and mimicked planets s...
Thirty year stellar survey cracks mysteries of galaxy's giant planets
May 27, 2021 (SPX)
In our solar system, the giant planets-Jupiter and Saturn-are found in the chilly outer regions, while smaller planets tend to orbit closer to the Sun. Earth li...
Origins of life researchers develop a new ecological biosignature
May 21, 2021 (SPX)
In groundbreaking new work, a team led by Santa Fe Institute Professor Chris Kempes has developed a new ecological biosignature that could help scientists detec...
Shrinking planets could explain mystery of universe's missing worlds
May 18, 2021 (SPX)
The new clue arose from a fresh way of looking at the data. A team of researchers led by the Flatiron Institute's Trevor David investigated whether the radius g...
Alien radioactive element prompts creation rethink
May 17, 2021 (SPX)
The tiny traces of plutonium-244 were found in ocean crust alongside radioactive iron-60. The two isotopes are evidence of violent cosmic events in the vicinity...
First ever discovery of methanol in a warm planet-forming disk
May 11, 2021 (SPX)
Thus, the methanol is inherited. If that is common, it could give the formation of life elsewhere a flying start. The researchers will publish their findings on...
How planets form controls elements essential for life
May 11, 2021 (SPX)
Planets like Earth that orbit within a solar system's Goldilocks zone, with conditions supporting liquid water and a rich atmosphere, are more likely to harbor ...
Coldplay beam new song into space in chat with French astronaut
May 07, 2021 (AFP)
Pesquet spoke with the British group from the International Space Station. "We sent you some music, because right now we aren't able to play for anyone on Earth...
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