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Experiments Unravelling the Mystery of Mars' Moon Phobos

Nov. 30, 2020 — There is no weather in space - but there is weathering: Celestial bodies are bombarded by high energy particles. On the Mars moon Phobos, the situation is complicated: It is hit by particles from the ...

Neutrinos Yield First Experimental Evidence of Catalyzed Fusion Dominant in Many Stars

Nov. 25, 2020 — Scientists report the detection of neutrinos from the sun, directly revealing for the first time that the carbon-nitrogen-oxygen (CNO) fusion-cycle ...

Building Blocks of Life Can Form Long Before Stars

Nov. 16, 2020 — An international team of scientists have shown that glycine, the simplest amino acid and an important building block of life, can form under the harsh conditions that govern chemistry in ...

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Tree Rings May Hold Clues to Impacts of Distant Supernovas on Earth

Nov. 11, 2020 — Massive explosions of energy happening thousands of light-years from Earth may have left traces in our planet's biology and geology, according to ...

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Fast-Moving Gas Flowing Away from Young Star Caused by Icy Comet Vaporization

Nov. 30, 2020 — A unique stage of planetary system evolution has been imaged by astronomers, showing fast-moving carbon monoxide gas flowing away from a star system ...

Radioactive Elements May Be Crucial to the Habitability of Rocky Planets

Nov. 10, 2020 — The amount of long-lived radioactive elements incorporated into a rocky planet as it forms may be a crucial factor in determining its future habitability. That's because internal heating from the ...

First Brown Dwarf Discovered by Radio Observations Confirmed

Nov. 9, 2020 — New research has led to the first direct discovery of a cold brown dwarf from its radio wavelength emission. Along with paving the way for future brown dwarf discoveries, this result is an important ...

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About Half of Sun-Like Stars Could Host Rocky, Potentially Habitable Planets

Nov. 6, 2020 — According to new research using data from NASA's retired planet-hunting mission, the Kepler space telescope, about half the ...

Microbial Space Travel on a Molecular Scale

Nov. 4, 2020 — Galactic cosmic and solar UV radiation, extreme vacuum, temperature fluctuations: how can microbes exposed to these challenges in space survive? Scientists investigated how the space-surviving ...

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Where Were Jupiter and Saturn Born?

Oct. 29, 2020 — New work reveals the likely original locations of Saturn and Jupiter. These findings refine our understanding of the forces that determined our Solar System's unusual ...

Mmore Complete View of Massive Asteroid Psyche

Oct. 26, 2020 — A new study discusses several new views of the asteroid 16 Psyche, including the first ultra-violet observations. The study paints a clearer view of the asteroid than was previously ...

Stars and Planets Grow Up Together as Siblings

Oct. 23, 2020 — ALMA shows rings around the still-growing proto-star IRS ...

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Smile, Wave: Some Exoplanets May Be Able to See Us, Too

Oct. 21, 2020 — Three decades after astronomer Carl Sagan suggested that Voyager 1 snap Earth's picture from billions of miles away -- resulting in the iconic Pale Blue Dot photograph - two ...

Ultraviolet Shines Light on Origins of the Solar System

Oct. 20, 2020 — In the search to discover the origins of our solar system, an international team including planetary scientists has compared the composition of the sun to the composition of the most ancient ...