An international team of researchers including NAI Postdoctoral Fellow Evgenya Shkolnik of the University of Hawai’i Team publish their observation in this month’s Royal Astronomical Society Letters of a magnetic […]
Exoplanets, -moons, -comets
Posted inAstrobiology (general), Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Origin & Evolution of Life
NAI Director's Seminar 11/27: Formation of Habitable Planetary Systems: Are We Normal?
Speakers: Sean Raymond (University of Colorado) and Avi Mandell (Goddard Space Flight Center) Date/Time: Monday, November 27, 2006 11AM PST Abstract: For a planet to be potentially habitable over long […]
Posted inAstrobiology (general), Exoplanets, -moons, -comets
Are Class M Planets Common?
Exotic Earths: Forming Habitable Worlds with Giant Planet Migration, Science Earth-like Planets May Be More Common Than Once Thought, University of Colorado at Boulder “More than one-third of the giant […]
Posted inExoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones
Exovegetation
NAI’s Virtual Planetary Laboratory Team have explored the possibility of detecting exovegetation on terrestrial planets orbiting M stars. They estimated the red-shift of this surface feature using leaf optical property […]
Posted inConferences and Meetings, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets
Pale Blue Dot III Registration Now Open
The third Pale Blue Dot workshop will be held at the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum in Chicago from 17-20 September, 2006. (The first two Pale Blue Dot workshops were […]
Posted inExoplanets, -moons, -comets
Preview of This Week's Space Science Announcement
NASA FUSE Mission Briefing: Carbon-rich gas around a young star that may be forming terrestrial planets “NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, June 7, about […]
Posted inConferences and Meetings, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets
Pale Blue Dot III Searching for Life on Distant Worlds (Terrestrial to Astronomical Biosignatures)
The Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum and the NAI (http://nai.arc.nasa.gov/) are co-convening the third Pale Blue Dot workshop, which is made possible by the Brinson Foundation. Pale Blue Dot III […]