One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet between the size of Earth and Neptune within the orbit […]
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Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Status Report
A Planet Crossing Starspots Reveals The Detailed Architecture Of The TOI-3884 System
To capture the spot-crossing transits, the team used the multicolor MuSCAT3 and MuSCAT4 instruments mounted on the Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) 2-meter telescopes. Between February and March 2024, they observed […]
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Press Release, Stellar Cartography
Formation Of Exoplanet AB Aurigae b Detected in H-alpha Light
Small rocky planets like Earth, which can harbor life, and giant gas planets like Jupiter are born around stars like the Sun. Their birthplace is a thin, disk-shaped structure of […]
Posted inBiochemistry & Organic Chemistry, Biophysics, Extinction events, Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Microbiology & Virology, Origin & Evolution of Life, Press Release
Tracing The Evolutionary History Of Bacterial Circadian Clocks On Ancient Earth
To better understand the circadian clock in modern-day cyanobacteria, a Japanese research team has studied ancient timekeeping systems. They examined the oscillation of the clock proteins KaiA, KaiB, and KaiC […]
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Mapping, Geodesy, Cartography, Bathymetry, Press Release, Space Agriculture, Space Life Science, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Can We Find Floating Vegetation On Ocean Planets?
Astronomical surveys have discovered nearly 6,000 exoplanets, including many habitable planets, which may harbor liquid water on their surfaces. The search for life on such planets is one of the […]
Posted inExoplanets, -moons, -comets, Press Release
Ultra-dense Super-Earth With An Outer Companion Offers Clues About Its Formation
An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, including an ultra-short period planet with one of the highest […]
Posted inAtmospheres, Climate, Weather, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Extinction events, Press Release
Astronomical Forces Control Earth’s Ice Age Cycles
A research team, composed of climatologists and an astronomer, have used an improved computer model to reproduce the cycle of ice ages (glacial periods) 1.6 to 1.2 million years ago.
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Pair Of Massive Baby Stars Swaddled In Salty Water Vapor
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers spotted a pair of massive baby stars growing in salty cosmic soup. Each star is shrouded by a gaseous disk which includes […]