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AI used to show how hydrogen becomes a metal inside giant planets
Sep 10, 2020 (SPX)
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, IBM Research and EPFL, used machine learning to mimic the interactions between hydrogen atoms in order to ove...
Telescope finds no signs of alien technology in 10 million star systems
Sep 09, 2020 (SPX)
Astronomers used the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope to explore hundreds of times more broadly than any previous search for extraterrestrial life. The...
SETI Institute and GNU Radio join forces
Sep 09, 2020 (SPX)
"I first started using GNU Radio as a teaching tool," said Steve Croft, Community Partnership Scientist on the SETI Institute SETI team. "With $25 worth of hard...
Study pinpoints process that might have led to first organic molecules
Sep 09, 2020 (SPX)
The process, which is similar to what might have occurred in some ancient underwater hydrothermal vents, may also have relevance to the search for life elsewher...
New observations show planet-forming disc torn apart by its three central stars
Sep 04, 2020 (SPX)
The results were made possible thanks to observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter...
Did meteorite impacts help create life on Earth and beyond
Sep 03, 2020 (SPX)
The new study, published in Astrobiology, posits that impact craters should absolutely be considered by space agencies like NASA and ESA as top exploration targ...
Manchester experts' breakthrough narrows intelligent life search in Milky Way
Sep 02, 2020 (SPX)
In new research published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, the researchers demonstrate a reanalysis of existing data that represents ...
Tracing the cosmic origin of complex organic molecules with their radiofrequency footprint
Aug 26, 2020 (SPX)
Many scientists have reported finding all sorts of COMs in molecular clouds - gigantic regions of interstellar space that contain various types of gases. This i...
Bacteria could survive travel between Earth and Mars when forming aggregates
Aug 26, 2020 (SPX)
This theory, called "panspermia", support the possibility that microbes may migrate between planets and distribute life in the universe. Long controversial, thi...
Fifty new planets confirmed in machine learning first
Aug 26, 2020 (SPX)
For the first time, astronomers have used a process based on machine learning, a form of artificial intelligence, to analyse a sample of potential planets and d...
Recently discovered planets not as safe from stellar flares as first thought
Aug 26, 2020 (SPX)
This star, named GJ 887, is one of the brightest M stars in the sky. M stars are low-mass red stars that outnumber stars like our sun more than tenfold, and the...
Bacteria could survive the trip to Mars in the form of thick aggregates
Aug 26, 2020 (UPI)
To better understand the resiliency of bacteria aggregates, researchers dried, or desiccated, different-sized aggregates of a radioresistant bacteria strain bel...
Rogue planets could outnumber the stars
Aug 24, 2020 (SPX)
"This gives us a window into these worlds that we would otherwise not have," said Samson Johnson, an astronomy graduate student at The Ohio State University and...
Pristine space rock offers NASA scientists peek at evolution of life's building blocks
Aug 24, 2020 (SPX)
Despite its modest size, this rock from space was a colossal find. As it turns out, Asuka 12236 is one of the best-preserved meteorites of its kind ever discove...
Microbes living on air a global phenomenon
Aug 20, 2020 (SPX)
Specifically, researchers found the target genes responsible for the atmospheric chemosynthesis phenomenon they discovered are abundant and widely distributed i...
The most sensitive instrument in the search for life in space comes from Bern
Aug 20, 2020 (SPX)
Proving traces of life beyond the Earth is extremely challenging, however. Highly sensitive instruments which take measurements on the ground with the greatest ...
Hundred cool worlds found near the sun
Aug 19, 2020 (SPX)
With the help of W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaii, the research team found several of these newly discovered worlds are among the very coolest known...
Lava oceans may not explain the brightness of some hot super-Earths
Aug 12, 2020 (SPX)
These fiery worlds, about the size of Earth, are known more evocatively as "lava-ocean planets," and scientists have observed that a handful of these hot super-...
NASA's planet hunter completes its primary mission
Aug 12, 2020 (SPX)
"TESS is producing a torrent of high-quality observations providing valuable data across a wide range of science topics," said Patricia Boyd, the project scient...
VLBA finds planet orbiting small, cool star
Aug 07, 2020 (SPX)
This is the first discovery of an extrasolar planet with a radio telescope using a technique that requires extremely precise measurements of a star's position i...
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