Oxygen may be false positives in search for life signs on other planets
Oxygen in the atmosphere may not be an entirely reliable 'biosignature,' but there are ways to distinguish false positives from signs of life, scientists...
How to confirm life on other planets
The search for life on other planets has received a major boost after scientists revealed the spectral signatures of almost 1000 atmospheric molecules that...
Earth’s building blocks formed during the solar system’s first million years, study finds
When people think about the most important ingredient for life on other planets, they usually talk about water.
But there’s another element that makes our...
Scientists find baby stars hatch from stellar eggs near galaxy’s center
Astronomers have found stellar eggs containing baby stars around the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
To make the discovery, the scientists used NSF's Atacama...
Alien raindrops surprisingly like rain on Earth, shows study
Raindrops on other planets and moons are close to the size of raindrops on Earth despite having different chemical compositions and falling through vastly...
Small telescopes to finally pry open the dynamic infrared sky
Our Milky Way galaxy is chock-full of dust.
Stars are essentially dust-making factories that infuse the galaxy with a haze of dusty elements required for...
Scientists find new way to explore the internal structure of neutron stars
Space scientists at the University of Bath in the UK have found a new way to probe the internal structure of neutron stars.
This offers...
Why Uranus and Neptune have wonky magnetic fields
The two large gas planets’ strange magnetic fields are each strongly tilted relative to the planet’s rotation axes and are significantly offset from the...
Radioactive molecules could help solve mystery of missing antimatter
Stars, galaxies, and everything in the universe, including our own bodies, are comprised of so-called regular matter.
Regular matter includes atoms and molecules, which are...
Scientists find stellar eggs near galactic center are hatching into baby stars
Astronomers found a few stellar eggs containing baby stars around the center of the Milky Way using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).
Previous studies...