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Webb Finds First Clear Evidence of Frozen Water in Young Star System
May 15, 2025 (SPX)
The data, captured using Webb's highly sensitive Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec), revealed that the icy particles are distributed alongside fine dust grain...
NASA Cleanroom Microbes Reveal Survival Strategies for Space and Biotech
May 13, 2025 (SPX)
Cleanrooms are meticulously controlled environments designed to minimize contamination, featuring stringent controls over airflow, temperature, and humidity. De...
Plato nears final camera installation for exoplanet hunt
May 12, 2025 (SPX)
Assembly work is progressing at OHB in Germany, where the sensitive optical systems are being mounted onto Plato's optical bench - the critical structure respon...
NASA's Webb Lifts Veil on Common but Mysterious Type of Exoplanet
May 06, 2025 (SPX)
"I had been waiting my entire career for Webb so that we could meaningfully characterize the atmospheres of these smaller planets," said principal investigator ...
The eukaryotic leap as a shift in life's genetic algorithm
Apr 29, 2025 (SPX)
While the endosymbiotic origin of eukaryotes remains widely accepted, the evolutionary steps leading from the fusion of Archaea and Bacteria to the first eukary...
Astronomers find Earth-like exoplanets common across the cosmos
Apr 28, 2025 (SPX)
By studying light anomalies made by the newly found planet's host star and combining their results with a larger sample from a KMTNet microlensing survey, the t...
Super Earths Found Abundant in Distant Orbits Across the Galaxy
Apr 28, 2025 (SPX)
The findings offer further evidence that planetary systems can differ greatly from the familiar layout of our Solar System. "We found a 'super Earth' - meaning ...
Turning Down Starlight to Reveal Distant Worlds
Apr 23, 2025 (SPX)
"Earth-like planets in the habitable zone ... can easily be up to a billion times dimmer than their host star," explained lead researcher Nico Deshler. "This ma...
How Webb Telescope Opens New Avenues in the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life
Apr 23, 2025 (SPX)
Webb is uniquely equipped to detect atmospheres around these exoplanets and begin analyzing their chemical makeup. This allows researchers to look for potential...
Astronomers detect exoplanet on rare perpendicular path around binary brown dwarfs
Apr 22, 2025 (SPX)
The host objects, both classified as brown dwarfs, lie in a rare category of substellar binaries that eclipse one another as seen from Earth. Brown dwarfs occup...
Big discovery reveals planet in upright orbit around brown dwarf binary
Apr 22, 2025 (SPX)
Named 2M1510 (AB) b, the exoplanet circles a pair of brown dwarfs at a dramatic 90-degree angle to their mutual orbital plane. This makes it the inaugural verif...
Strongest 'hints' yet of life detected on distant planet
Apr 17, 2025 (AFP)
There has been vigorous debate in scientific circles about whether the planet K2-18b, which is 124 light years away in the Leo constellation, could be an ocean ...
Where are all the aliens?: Fermi's Paradox explained
Apr 17, 2025 (AFP)
But given the age and vastness of the universe, a different question has long puzzled some scientists: why haven't we already come in contact with aliens? "Wher...
Scientists uncover why carbon-rich space rocks rarely reach Earth
Apr 15, 2025 (SPX)
Scientists from Curtin University's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), the Paris Observatory...
How alien energy patterns may reveal extraterrestrial life
Apr 14, 2025 (SPX)
Tikhonov, who studies microbial ecosystems, explains that alien organisms may not exhibit familiar characteristics such as recognizable fossils or traditional b...
SwRI analysis reveals exotic nature of TOI-270 d atmosphere
Apr 10, 2025 (SPX)
Sub-Neptunes are planetary bodies that bridge the size gap between rocky planets like Earth and gas giants like Neptune, but they are absent from our own solar ...
What null results in the search for life could still reveal
Apr 10, 2025 (SPX)
"Even a single positive detection would change everything-but until then, we need to make sure we're learning as much as possible from what we don't find," said...
Microscopy study in Earths harsh environments informs alien life search
Apr 10, 2025 (SPX)
Carl Snyder, a physics Ph.D. candidate at Portland State and lead author, emphasized the planetary significance of these analog environments: "These environment...
Strongest biosignature signal yet found on exoplanet
Apr 10, 2025 (SPX)
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a research team led by the University of Cambridge identified the spectral presence of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and/o...
Saturn's moon Titan could harbor life, but only a tiny amount, study finds
Apr 10, 2025 (SPX)
An international team of researchers co-led by Antonin Affholder at the U of A Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Peter Higgins at Harvard Unive...
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