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Newly Discovered Planet Retains Atmosphere Despite Star's Intense Radiation
Jun 06, 2024 (SPX)
Nicknamed "Phoenix," the newly discovered planet shows the vast diversity of solar systems and the complexity of planetary evolution, especially at the end of s...
Giant viruses discovered on Greenland ice sheet
Jun 05, 2024 (SPX)
Researchers may have found a way to control the algae growth and potentially reduce ice melting. Postdoc Laura Perini from the Department of Environmental Scien...
Why do astronomers look for signs of life on other planets based on what life is like on Earth?
Jun 04, 2024 (SPX)
That is kind of what scientists like me do when we look for alien life; we're trying to think of new ways to look for life. In the meantime, we're looking for l...
NASA selects industry proposals to advance technologies for Habitable Worlds Observatory
Jun 01, 2024 (SPX)
The mission aims to directly image Earth-like planets around stars similar to our Sun and study their atmospheres for the chemical signatures of life, as well a...
Starless and forever alone: more 'rogue' planets discovered
May 29, 2024 (AFP)
Without being bound to a star, as the Earth is to the Sun, there are no days or years on these planets, which languish in perpetual night. Yet scientists believ...
NASA's TESS Finds Intriguing World Sized Between Earth, Venus
May 26, 2024 (SPX)
"We've found the nearest, transiting, temperate, Earth-size world located to date," said Masayuki Kuzuhara, a project assistant professor at the Astrobiology Ce...
Astronomers Discover 15 New Exoplanets and Measure Mass of 126 Others
May 26, 2024 (SPX)
The study, part of the TESS-Keck Survey, is published in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement. "These two facilities (TESS and Keck) work synergistically to stu...
Exploring the potential for life on Europa through iron snow
May 23, 2024 (SPX)
In a groundbreaking study published in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024), Dr. Sahai and her collaborators, Dr. John...
ASU researchers address methane mystery of exoplanet
May 22, 2024 (SPX)
WASP-107b has puzzled astronomers for some time, but recent findings with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope have provided new ins...
NASA Tool Gets Ready to Image Faraway Planets
May 22, 2024 (SPX)
The Roman Coronagraph Instrument on NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help pave the way in the search for habitable worlds outside our solar system ...
Webb reveals details of exoplanet's interior
May 21, 2024 (SPX)
Data from the James Webb Space Telescope provide the first measurements of an exoplanet's core mass, likely informing future studies of planetary atmospheres an...
Researchers Discover New Insights into Carbene Formation
May 20, 2024 (SPX)
The researchers created hydroxymethylene (HCOH), a carbene, by breaking down methanol (CH3OH) with ultraviolet radiation. The results were published on May 14, ...
Earth-sized planet discovered orbiting ultra-cool red dwarf star
May 16, 2024 (SPX)
The planet, named SPECULOOS-3 b, is the second of its kind discovered around this type of star. It completes an orbit of the star in about 17 hours. The star is...
Newly discovered Earth-sized planet may lack an atmosphere
May 16, 2024 (SPX)
In a paper appearing in Nature Astronomy, the researchers confirm the detection of SPECULOOS-3b, an Earth-sized, likely airless planet that the team discovered ...
Astronomers spot a giant planet that is as light as cotton candy
May 15, 2024 (SPX)
The new planet, named WASP-193b, appears to dwarf Jupiter in size, yet it is a fraction of its density. The scientists found that the gas giant is 50 percent bi...
UH Manoa researchers uncover origins of life's building blocks in space
May 15, 2024 (SPX)
A team from the Department of Chemistry has identified how nitrogen-carrying aromatic molecules can form in space. These molecules are crucial in many chemical ...
Evidence of atmosphere discovered on rocky exoplanet 55 Cancri e
May 10, 2024 (SPX)
The exoplanet, situated just 41 light years away, orbits its sun-like star at a close proximity that results in extreme temperatures. Its unique orbit, completi...
A perfect tidal storm: HD 104067 planetary architecture creating an incandescent world
May 10, 2024 (SPX)
Kane discovered that the planet, situated in a distant star system, is so heavily dotted with active volcanoes that it appears as a luminous red orb when observ...
Ozone's influence on exoplanetary climate dynamics highlighted in new research
May 09, 2024 (SPX)
Dr. Hochman, in collaboration with Dr. Paolo De Luca of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center in Spain, Dr. Thaddeus Komacek of the University of Maryland in the ...
Genomes of multicellular algal relatives reveal evolutionary clues to plant origins
May 06, 2024 (SPX)
This significant evolution began with a singular event-plant terrestrialization-when ancestors of modern plants first adapted to terrestrial environments. Withi...
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