09 May 2018
First confirmed carbon-rich asteroid found in Kuiper Belt
...’s Very Large Telescope, helps strengthen theories about the dynamical evolution of the Solar System that describes how the planets ended... most widely accepted models of the Solar System's early evolution is the Nice model - named after Nice in France...
02 July 2018
Baby planet in dusty disc finally caught on camera
... INfrared survey for Exoplanets) and DISK (sphere survey for circumstellar DISK) designed to shed light on planetary evolution processes. SHINE aims to image 600 young nearby stars in the near-infrared to discover and characterise new...
30 January 2019
New physics needed to explain early expansion of the Universe
... arose. “In the earlier phases that we can only probe with quasars, we find a discrepancy between the observed evolution of the Universe and what we would predict based on the standard cosmological model,” explained Lusso. At the moment...
25 February 2019
Scientists create DNA-like molecule to aid search for alien life
... recognition behavior of standard 4-letter DNA but it also met the Schrodinger requirements for a Darwinian system of molecular evolution – a hallmark for supporting life. The synthetic hachimoji includes the four G, A, T and C nucleotides but also...
04 December 2019
Giant planet found orbiting a white dwarf for the first time
... Valparaiso in Chile, who computed the past and future evolution of this system. After combining observational data with theoretical ... that more than one planet may have survived the destructive evolution of the host star. The discovery opens up a new...
16 December 2019
Cheops, ESA's exoplanet watching telescope launches tomorrow
... it collates will help astronomers improve their models of the formation and evolution of small planets, with potential implications for our understanding of the evolution of our own Solar System. “CHEOPS will provide us with key information...
