Earth Has a Billion Years Left. This Plan Could Stretch It to 9 Quadrillion
The star that gave our planet life will one day take it away. Scientists have long agreed that…
Nearby “Super Earth” May Be A Better Candidate For Life Than Previously Thought
[UT Austin] Using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory, astronomers have taken a closer look at a nearby…
Astronomers Find Potentially Habitable Super-Earth Just 25 Light-Years Away
Astronomers have discovered a rocky exoplanet about twice Earth’s size just 25 light-years away, orbiting in the habitable…
New habitable exoplanets model narrows down search for life
View larger. | Artist’s concept of Kepler-186f, an Earth-sized exoplanet in the habitable zone of its star, where…
Titan’s Organic World – Astrobiology
Illustration of the thermal structure of Titan’s atmosphere and its atmospheric processes. It illustrates the high-altitude photochemistry of…
Early Complex Life Lived In Oxygenated Seas, Challenging Long‑held Views Of Evolution
Microfossil by Researcher Max Lechte. Credit – LA Reidman McGill University The earliest known eukaryotes, the ancestors of…
Maximum Lifetime Of The Vegetative Biosphere
ExoCAM simulations of Earth from the present up to 2.0 Gyr in the future, assuming CO2 remains fixed…
Which is the most common type of planet in the galaxy? Scientists reveal ‘super-Earths’ |
According to Kepler observations, the most abundant kind of planets in the Milky Way is the super-Earths. These…
Proton Irradiation of Primitive Atmospheres of Young Exoplanets And Early Earth: N2O Greenhouse Warming And Prebiotic Synthesis
The figure shows the HPLC Chromatograms of Amino Acids produced in the Sample B5 irradiation run. — astro-ph.EP…
The TOLIMAN Mission: A Low-cost Space Telescope For High Precision Narrow-angle Astrometry
The strength of indirect detection signals from an Earth-like exoplanet as a function of stellar effective temperature. Bands…
Spectral Decomposition Reveals Surface Processes on Europa
Qualitative projections of the best-fit three-dimensional spherical-harmonic model to the jointly decomposed first spatial mode, u(1), derived from…
Atmospheric Collapse And Habitability On Tidally-Locked Exoplanets
Atmospheric conditions in the case with Sp = 0.4 S0, pN2 = 1.0 bar, pCO2 = 0.1 bar.…