10 January 2018
Possible recipe for life on early Earth
...could have found a way with a crude replacement to todays metabolic processes. To survive, every oxygen-breathing organism on Earth, from tigers to toadstools, relies on a process known as the citric acid cycle (CAC) to release stored energy in cells...
19 June 2019
Two new Earth-like planets found around nearby star
... – Teegarden’s star is located just 12.5 light years away from Earth – this cool, red dwarf, only came to the attention of... J. Teegarden, found it in data collected via the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program. It has long been thought that...
25 April 2016
Near-Earth asteroid population smaller than thought
... 108 NEAs with absolute magnitude H < 28, represents the true number of objects lying in wait to get a closer view of Earth. The absolute magnitude of an asteroid is defined as the visual magnitude an observer would record if the asteroid were placed...
17 June 2020
Six billion Earth-like planets could be in our galaxy, new study says
..., on its surface. "My calculations place an upper limit of 0.18 Earth-like planets per G-type star," says UBC researcher Michelle Kunimoto, co-author...have a size between 1.5 and two times that of Earth. She found that the radius gap exists over a much...
18 April 2016
New Earth-like planet found in GJ 832 planetary system
...most likely to be a rocky planet with a mass ≥ 5.4 Earth masses, which may be concealing a dense atmosphere. However, this... Artistic representation of the exoplanet Gliese 832c as compared with Earth. Image credit: PHL / UPR Arecibo. The central star ...
22 September 2017
OSIRIS-REx makes closest Earth approach today
... to the origin of life and give clues as to how Earth got its oceans. Launched just over a year ago while strapped... collected sample of Bennu’s surface is expected to return to Earth in 2023. The spacecraft has already been spotted earlier this month...
