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First direct observation of exoplanet Beta Pictoris c
Oct 05, 2020 (SPX)
Combining the light of the four large VLT telescopes, astronomers in the GRAVITY collaboration have managed to directly observe the glint of light coming from a...
Recipe is different, But Titan has ingredients for life
Oct 05, 2020 (SPX)
For nearly two decades, the global space sector has focused a majority of its funds and research on Mars, in search of the building blocks of life. And yet, the...
Search for New Worlds at Home with NASA's Planet Patrol Project
Oct 01, 2020 (SPX)
"Automated methods of processing TESS data sometimes fail to catch imposters that look like exoplanets," said project leader Veselin Kostov, a research scientis...
Is there other life in the universe
Sep 30, 2020 (SPX)
Horgan, an associate professor of planetary science at Purdue, soon will have an opportunity to delve into those questions by searching for evidence of past mic...
CHEOPS space telescope makes ultra-precise temperature and size measurements of an unusual giant planet
Sep 29, 2020 (SPX)
At 3200 degrees Celsius, it is one of the hottest bodies of the over 4000 known exoplanets. The European Space Agency (ESA) mission, launched last year, enables...
Exoplanet hunter snares 'extreme' superhot world
Sep 29, 2020 (AFP)
Launched into Earth orbit in December, the CHEOPS space-based telescope spotted the gas giant circling close to one of the hottest known stars with a planetary ...
Let them eat rocks
Sep 24, 2020 (SPX)
These microbes break apart chemical bonds in deep underground layers of rocks, then die and release nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus into the soil. Asi...
Water on exoplanet cloud tops could be found with hi-tech instrumentation
Sep 23, 2020 (SPX)
By applying the technique to models based upon known exoplanets with clouds the team has demonstrated in principle that high resolution spectroscopy can be used...
Evolution of radio-resistance is more complicated than previously thought
Sep 23, 2020 (SPX)
But to this date, scientists remained puzzled by how radio-resistance could have evolved in several organisms on our planet, naturally protected from solar radi...
Professor verifies centuries-old conjecture about the formation of the Solar System
Sep 23, 2020 (SPX)
"The science community is aware by now that there are thousands of solar systems in the galaxy. But what is not known is how these solar systems came into exist...
Astronomers discover an Earth-sized pi planet with a 3.14-day orbit
Sep 22, 2020 (SPX)
The researchers discovered signals of the planet in data taken in 2017 by the NASA Kepler Space Telescope's K2 mission. By zeroing in on the system earlier this...
NASA missions spy first possible survivor planet hugging white dwarf star
Sep 17, 2020 (SPX)
The Jupiter-size object, called WD 1856 b, is about seven times larger than the white dwarf, named WD 1856+534. It circles this stellar cinder every 34 hours, m...
A white dwarf's surprise planetary companion
Sep 17, 2020 (SPX)
Astronomers have used the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF's NOIRLab, and other telescopes around the globe and in space to find and character...
Device could help detect signs of extraterrestrial life
Sep 17, 2020 (SPX)
Now, researchers reporting in ACS' Analytical Chemistry have developed a fully automated microchip electrophoresis analyzer that, when incorporated into a plane...
SwRI scientist searches for stellar phosphorus to find potentially habitable exoplanets
Sep 17, 2020 (SPX)
"When searching for exoplanets and trying to see whether they are habitable, it's important that a planet be alive with active cycles, volcanoes and plate tecto...
How protoplanetary rings form in primordial gas clouds
Sep 16, 2020 (SPX)
Its discovery has shaken solar system origin theories to their core. Mayer Humi, a scientist from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, believes it provides an a...
Venus is one stop in our search for life
Sep 16, 2020 (SPX)
The Spirit and Opportunity rovers enabled NASA to discover that Mars had a massive ocean, a thick atmosphere, and a magnetosphere that protected it from the rad...
A warm Jupiter orbiting a cool star
Sep 15, 2020 (SPX)
"This is only the fifth Jupiter-sized planet transiting a low-mass star that has been observed and the first with such a long orbital period, which makes this d...
Scientists find gas on Venus linked to life on Earth
Sep 14, 2020 (AFP)
Conditions on our planetary neighbour are often described as hellish with daytime temperatures hot enough to melt lead and an atmosphere comprised almost entire...
Carbon-rich exoplanets may be made of diamonds
Sep 11, 2020 (SPX)
In a new study published recently in The Planetary Science Journal, a team of researchers from Arizona State University and the University of Chicago have deter...
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