NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures visible and infrared images of protoplanetary disks, showing gas and dust structures ...
Some of the most promising places to look for extraterrestrials have remained, so far, mostly hidden from astronomers. Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is ...
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Life’s starter chemicals can survive star birth and keep growing in planet-forming disks
The swirling disk around a young star has been found to contain an inventory of seventeen complex organic molecules enough to ...
Some of the most promising places to look for extraterrestrials have remained, so far, mostly hidden from astronomers. Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is ...
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How astronomers plan to detect the signatures of alien life in the atmospheres of distant planets
Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.
Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty protoplanetary disks that give birth to planets of all kinds. And when a star ...
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98% of supposed water worlds may be lava planets hiding in plain sight
For years, astronomers have celebrated every hint of an ocean on a distant world as a potential foothold for life. Now a new wave of modeling argues that most of those supposed seas are illusions, and ...
New research from the University of St Andrews has found that giant free floating planets have the potential to form their own miniature planetary systems without the need for a star. In findings ...
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