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Research identifies Earth's extreme environments as best places for life to grow
Dec 14, 2020 (SPX)
A report published Dec. 11, 2020, in the research journal Science dispels the premise that areas such as the Amazon rainforest are biodiversity hotspots because...
Hubble identifies strange exoplanet that behaves like a Planet Nine
Dec 11, 2020 (ESA)
The exoplanet HD106906 b was discovered in 2013 with the Magellan Telescopes at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert. However, astronomers did...
UC Riverside-led team looks back to find life beyond
Dec 09, 2020 (SPX)
The teams comprise the inaugural class of NASA's Interdisciplinary Consortia for Astrobiology Research program. The UCR-led team is motivated by the fundamental...
Rochester researchers uncover key clues about the solar system's history
Dec 07, 2020 (SPX)
The research also gives scientists data that can be applied to the discovery of new exoplanets. "There is special interest in defining this history - in referen...
Fast-moving gas flowing away from young star's asteroid belt may be caused by icy comet vaporisation
Dec 01, 2020 (SPX)
Astronomers have detected fast-moving carbon monoxide gas flowing away from a young, low-mass star: a unique stage of planetary system evolution which may provi...
Rapid-forming giants could disrupt spiral protoplanetary discs giants
Nov 30, 2020 (SPX)
The research, published 26 November in the Astrophysical Journal Letters andpart supported by the Royal Society, provides an explanation for the lack of spiral ...
A planet-forming disk still fed by the mother cloud
Nov 24, 2020 (SPX)
ALMA has now revealed an evolved protoplanetary disk with a large gap still being fed by the surrounding cloud via large accretion filaments. This shows that ac...
Here's Looking at You, MKID
Nov 24, 2020 (SPX)
Now, a team of U.S. and Japanese scientists and engineers that includes researchers at UC Santa Barbara have developed a new exoplanet-hunting camera. Deployed ...
A terrestrial-mass planet on the run?
Nov 22, 2020 (SPX)
We've discovered more than 4,000 exoplanets in the last three decades, spanning a dramatic range of masses, sizes, temperatures, compositions, orbital propertie...
New Interdisciplinary Consortium for Astrobiology Research
Nov 18, 2020 (SPX)
Natalie Batalha, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, will lead the consortium, one of eight new research teams selected by NASA to inaugur...
Building blocks of life can form long before stars
Nov 18, 2020 (SPX)
The results, published in Nature Astronomy, suggest that glycine, and very likely other amino acids, form in dense interstellar clouds well before they transfor...
Life's building blocks can form in interstellar clouds without stellar fusion
Nov 16, 2020 (UPI)
Scientists have previously detected glycine in the coma of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Stardust sampling missions have also turned up evidence of inter...
Climate Stabilization on Distant Worlds
Nov 16, 2020 (SPX)
Over the span of millions of years, a planet's host star might gradually dim or brighten, or the planet's volcanic outgassing patterns might slowly shift. If ev...
Ariel moves from blueprint to reality
Nov 16, 2020 (ESA)
Ariel, the Atmospheric remote-sensing infrared exoplanet large-survey mission, addresses one of the key themes of ESA's Cosmic Vision programme: What are the co...
Cysteine synthesis was a key step in the origin of life
Nov 13, 2020 (SPX)
All proteins are built from the same 20 amino acids. One of these, cysteine, was assumed not to have been present at the origin of life. Despite its fundamental...
Radioactive elements may be crucial to the habitability of rocky planets
Nov 11, 2020 (SPX)
That's because internal heating from the radioactive decay of the heavy elements thorium and uranium drives plate tectonics and may be necessary for the planet ...
NYUAD study finds stellar flares can lead to the diminishment of a planet's habitability
Nov 10, 2020 (SPX)
In the paper titled Stellar flares versus luminosity: XUV-induced atmospheric escape and planetary habitability, published in the journal Monthly Notices of Roy...
Maunakea telescopes confirm first brown dwarf discovered by radio observations
Nov 10, 2020 (SPX)
For the first time, astronomers have used observations from the LOFAR radio telescope, the NASA IRTF, operated by the University of Hawai'i, and the internation...
New exoplanet model tells astronomers where to look using 4 simple variables
Nov 10, 2020 (The Conversation)
Exoplanets - worlds around other stars - have long been staples of science fiction but remained mostly inaccessible to scientific investigations. This all chang...
Water may be naturally occurring on all rocky planets
Nov 10, 2020 (SPX)
So far, so good. But if life emerged in water, where did the water come from? "There are two hypotheses about the emergence of water. One is that it arrives on ...
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