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Yucatan underwater caves host diverse microbial communities

Nov 13, 2023 (SPX)

Although previous researchers have collected water and microbial samples from the cave entrances and easily accessible sinkholes, the Northwestern-led team reac...

Extended habitability of exoplanets due to subglacial water

Nov 10, 2023 (SPX)

The classical Habitable Zone, often colloquially referred to as the "Goldilocks Zone," typically defines the region around a star where conditions allow the pre...

Webb findings support long-proposed process of planet formation

Nov 09, 2023 (SPX)

Theories have long proposed that icy pebbles forming in the cold, outer regions of protoplanetary disks - the same area where comets originate in our solar syst...

Major $200M gift propels scientific research in the search for life beyond earth

Nov 09, 2023 (SPX)

With more than 100 scientists actively conducting research across 173 separate programs, the SETI Institute explores six key science disciplines: Astronomy and ...

An ammonia trail to exoplanets

Nov 08, 2023 (SPX)

Until now, 12C and 13C bound in carbon monoxide were the only isotopologues that could be measured in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. Now a team of researchers ...

Jurassic worlds might be easier to spot than modern Earth

Nov 03, 2023 (SPX)

Their analysis of the most recent 540 million years of Earth's evolution, known as the Phanerozoic Eon, finds that telescopes could better detect potential chem...

Scorching, seven-planet system revealed by new Kepler Exoplanet list

Nov 03, 2023 (SPX)

"We've assembled the most accurate list of Kepler planet candidates and their properties to date," said Jack Lissauer, a research scientist at NASA's Ames Resea...

Giant planets cast a deadly pall

Nov 01, 2023 (SPX)

Jupiter, by far the biggest planet in our solar system, plays an important protective role. Its enormous gravitational field deflects comets and asteroids that ...

Mummified mice discovered atop sky-high Andean volcanoes

Oct 31, 2023 (SPX)

So when archaeologists first reported stumbling across a few mouse cadavers during expeditions to several Andean peaks in the 1970s and '80s, they figured, natu...

ET phone Dublin? Astrophysicists scan the Galaxy for signs of life

Oct 25, 2023 (SPX)

Using the Irish LOFAR telescope and its counterpart in Onsala, Sweden, the team - led by Professor Evan Keane, Associate Professor of Radio Astronomy in Trinity...

Exoplanet-informed research helps search for radio technosignatures

Oct 24, 2023 (SPX)

In this work, lead author Megan Grace Li and her team found that 53 nHz was sufficient in 99% of known-exoplanet cases and that this value drops to a mere 0.44 ...

Webb detects tiny quartz crystals in clouds of hot gas giant

Oct 17, 2023 (SPX)

So what's so special about the latest discovery from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope? Imagine quartz crystals that appear quite literally out of thin air. A m...

Extreme habitats: Microbial life in Old Faithful Geyser

Oct 16, 2023 (SPX)

Yet new research by Lisa M. Keller, published on PNAS Nexus earlier this year and to be presented on Sunday at the Geological Society of America's GSA Connects ...

Researchers capture first-ever afterglow of huge planetary collision in outer space

Oct 12, 2023 (SPX)

The international team of astronomers was formed after an enthusiast viewed the light curve of the star and noticed something strange. It showed the system doub...

Astronomers discover first step toward planet formation

Oct 09, 2023 (SPX)

Looking for something and not finding it can be even more difficult than finding it sometimes, but new detailed observations of the young star DG Taurus show th...

James Webb telescope captures planet-like structures in Orion Nebula

Oct 02, 2023 (UPI)

The photos shared by the European Space Agency were taken with Webb's near-infrared camera NIRCam and exposed elements of the nebula located south of the Orion ...

Possible hints of life found on distant planet - how excited should we be?

Sep 27, 2023 (SPX)

Exoplanets are worlds that orbit stars other than the Sun. The planet in question is named K2-18b. It's so named because it was the first planet found to orbit ...

Alien Machines in the Solar System: The Possibilities and Potential Origins

Sep 27, 2023 (SPX)

Genetically engineered bacteria, for example, could outlive humankind. In relation to their migration hypothesis, the scientists Robert Bradbury and Milan Cirko...

Study sheds new light on strange lava worlds

Sep 27, 2023 (SPX)

To date, nearly 50% of all rocky exoplanets yet discovered have been found capable of maintaining magma on their surfaces, likely because these planets are so c...

JWST's first spectrum of a TRAPPIST-1 planet

Sep 27, 2023 (SPX)

The team, which included University of Michigan astronomer and NASA Sagan Fellow Ryan MacDonald, published its study in the journal The Astrophysical Journal Le...