To determine the composition of the TRAPPIST-1 planets, the team used a unique software package that uses state-of-the-art mineral physics calculators. The software, called ExoPlex, allowed the team to combine …read more Source:: Science
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Soft tissue fossil clues could help search for ancient life on Earth and other planets
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•Fossils that preserve entire organisms (including both hard and soft body parts) are critical to our understanding of evolution and ancient life on Earth. However, these exceptional deposits are extremely …read more Source:: Science
TRAPPIST-1 planets probably rich in water
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•A new study has found that planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 are made mostly of rock, and some could hold more water than Earth. The planets’ densities suggest that some …read more Source:: Science
Astrophysicists discover planets in extragalactic galaxies using microlensing
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•Astrophysicists have discovered for the first time a population of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Using microlensing — an astronomical phenomenon and the only known method capable of discovering …read more Source:: Science
A new ‘atmospheric disequilibrium’ could help detect life on other planets
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•A new study has found a simple approach to look for life that might be more promising than just looking for oxygen. …read more Source:: Science
Citizen scientists discover five-planet system
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•In its search for exoplanets — planets outside of our solar system — NASA’s Kepler telescope trails behind Earth, measuring the brightness of stars that may potentially host planets. The …read more Source:: Science
Planets around other stars are like peas in a pod
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•A study of 909 planets and 355 stars reveals that, unlike our solar system, other planetary systems are distinguished by strict regularity. …read more Source:: Science
Extra-terrestrial Hypatia stone rattles solar system status quo
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•Analyses on a small pebble found in south-west Egypt cast significant questions on a widely-held view about the primitive pre-solar dust cloud which our Sun, Earth and other planets were …read more Source:: Science
Star in the constellation Pisces is ‘eating’ planets
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•Astronomers have discovered that a distant star called RZ Picseum in the constellation Pisces is crushing one or more planets into its orbit into a vast cloud of gas and …read more Source:: Science
Artificial intelligence, NASA data used to discover eighth planet circling distant star
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•Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star 2,545 light …read more Source:: Science