It was a good week for astrobiology. Within days of NASA's announcement that the necessary ingredients for life exist in the plumes erupting from the southern pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus, scientists gathered at Stanford ...
Astronomy
May 1, 2017
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NASA's newest planet-hunting satellite has discovered a type of planet missing from our own solar system.
Astronomy
Jul 29, 2019
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Any life identified on planets orbiting white dwarf stars almost certainly evolved after the star's death, says a new study led by the University of Warwick that reveals the consequences of the intense and furious stellar ...
Astronomy
Jul 20, 2021
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(Phys.org) —Researchers at The University of Auckland have proposed a new method for finding Earth-like planets and they anticipate that the number will be in the order of 100 billion.
Astronomy
Apr 3, 2013
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If conditions had been just a little different an eon ago, there might be plentiful life on Venus and none on Earth.
Astronomy
Jul 5, 2016
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the launch of the NASA Kepler Mission earlier this year, astronomers have been keenly awaiting the first detection of an Earth-like planet around another star. Now, in an echo of science fiction movies ...
Astronomy
Sep 3, 2009
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Volunteers from the Planethunters.org website, part of the Oxford University-led Zooniverse project, have discovered 15 new planet candidates orbiting in the habitable zones of other stars.
Astronomy
Jan 7, 2013
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A report published in Science has dismissed claims made last year that the first super-Earth planet discovered in the habitable zone of a distant star was 'stellar activity masquerading as planets.' The researchers are confident ...
Astronomy
Mar 6, 2015
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New research has revealed that fewer than predicted planets may be capable of harbouring life because their atmospheres keep them too hot.
Astronomy
May 26, 2016
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A team of Carnegie scientists has discovered three giant planets in a binary star system composed of stellar ''twins'' that are also effectively siblings of our Sun. One star hosts two planets and the other hosts the third. ...
Astronomy
Aug 31, 2016
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