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UBCO researcher uses geology to help astronomers find habitable planets
May 05, 2021 (SPX)
Now, new research from UBC's Okanagan campus is using the geology of early planet formation to help identify those that may be capable of supporting life. "The ...
Hubble Watches How a Giant Planet Grows
May 04, 2021 (SPX)
"We just don't know very much about how giant planets grow," said Brendan Bowler of the University of Texas at Austin. "This planetary system gives us the first...
Astronomers detect first ever hydroxyl molecule signature in an exoplanet atmosphere
Apr 28, 2021 (SPX)
The hydroxyl radical (OH) was found on the dayside of the exoplanet WASP-33b. This planet is a so-called 'ultra-hot Jupiter', a gas-giant planet orbiting its ho...
NASA's Webb to study young exoplanets on the edge
Apr 22, 2021 (SPX)
But even their creative minds could not have conceived of the variety of worlds astronomers have uncovered. Many of these worlds, called exoplanets, are vastly ...
When the atmosphere isn't enough
Apr 21, 2021 (ESA)
The Chicxulub impact some 66 million years ago shows us that enormous asteroids many kilometres in diameter survive the fiery journey through Earth's atmosphere...
Researchers identify five double star systems potentially suitable for life
Apr 16, 2021 (SPX)
A newly developed mathematical framework allowed researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi and the University of Washington to show that those systems - betw...
As different as day and night
Apr 16, 2021 (SPX)
As we find more and more exoplanets, we're realizing that our solar system may be the exception to the rule! The menagerie of exoplanets we've discovered so far...
Baked meteorites yield clues to planetary atmospheres
Apr 16, 2021 (SPX)
Their results, published April 15 in Nature Astronomy, suggest that the initial atmospheres of terrestrial planets may differ significantly from many of the com...
Scientists may detect signs of extraterrestrial life in the next 5 to 10 years
Apr 16, 2021 (SPX)
"What really surprised me about the results is that we may realistically find signs of life on other planets in the next 5 to 10 years," said Caprice Phillips, ...
Study warns of 'oxygen false positives' in search for signs of life on other planets
Apr 14, 2021 (SPX)
The new findings, published April 13 in AGU Advances, highlight the need for next-generation telescopes that are capable of characterizing planetary environment...
Scientists shed more light on molecules linked to life on other planets
Apr 11, 2021 (SPX)
The search for life on other planets has received a major boost after scientists revealed the spectral signatures of almost 1000 atmospheric molecules that may ...
Long-awaited review reveals journey of water from interstellar clouds to habitable worlds
Apr 11, 2021 (SPX)
The article, published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, summarizes existing knowledge and provides new information about the origin of water on new, p...
Amounts of organic molecules in planetary systems differ from early on
Apr 11, 2021 (SPX)
It was once believed that complex organic molecules were rare in the universe, and that this rarity might be a reason we have not found evidence of life outside...
Crustal mineralogy drives microbe diversity beneath Earth's surface
Apr 09, 2021 (UPI)
For obvious reason, scientists don't know a lot about these microbes, but researchers estimate they account for anywhere between 20 and 80 percent of Earth's ba...
SKF bearings help Mars Rover collect rock and regolith samples on the planet's surface
Apr 08, 2021 (SPX)
These highly engineered components contribute to the survival of the rover's main robotic arm, sample collecting turret, tool bit carousel and sample handling a...
First transiting exoplanet's 'chemical fingerprint' reveals its distant birthplace
Apr 08, 2021 (SPX)
The conclusions are published in the journal Nature by an international team of astronomers. The University of Warwick led the modelling and interpretation of t...
Probing for life in the icy crusts of ocean worlds
Apr 08, 2021 (JPL)
"Perseverance is going to look for a shopping list of minerals, organics, and other chemical compounds that may reveal microbial life once thrived on Mars," sai...
Origins of life could have started with DNA-like XNAs
Apr 07, 2021 (SPX)
"The RNA world is widely thought to be a stage in the origin of life," says Nagoya University biomolecular engineer Keiji Murayama. "Before this stage, the pre-...
Raindrops also keep fallin' on exoplanets
Apr 06, 2021 (SPX)
In a recent paper, Harvard researchers found that raindrops are remarkably similar across different planetary environments, even planets as drastically differen...
Roman Space Telescope predicted to find 100,000 transiting planets
Apr 01, 2021 (SPX)
Roman will locate these potential new worlds, or exoplanets, by tracking the amount of light coming from distant stars over time. In a technique called gravitat...
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