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What could aliens look like?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 6 days agoLike some corals, these organisms might have proteins or pigments that can absorb some of the UV light's energy, which would then make them glow in a...
NASA funds tech development for life-hunting Habitable Worlds Observatory
Space via Yahoo News· 3 days agoNASA recently selected three proposals that will help develop the tech needed by its proposed...
The storied Hubble telescope has gone into ‘safe mode.’ Here’s NASA’s plan to keep it alive
CNN via Yahoo News· 6 days agoNASA is changing the way the Hubble Space Telescope operates to bypass an issue that keeps putting...
'Super-Charged' Black Holes From Early Universe May Explain Dark Matter
ExtremeTech· 4 days agoThe rest is mysterious dark matter and dark energy. Famed scientist Stephen Hawking once speculated that dark matter could be a population of tiny "primordial" black holes. Physicists from MIT ...
‘Dyson spheres’ were theorized as a way to detect alien life. Scientists say they’ve found potential...
AccuWeather· 14 hours agoFreeman Dyson theorized that hypothetical alien megastructures would give off infrared radiation and...
Webb Telescope Uncovers a Mysterious Carbon Treasure Trove Around Young Star
SciTechDaily· 6 days agoUsing the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have discovered a rich variety of carbon molecules in a protoplanetary disk around a low-mass star, suggesting a unique type of planet-forming ...
Laser tests reveal new insights into key mineral for super-Earths
Science Daily· 2 days agoHigh-energy laser experiments -- which subjected tiny crystals of the mineral to the type of heat and pressure found deep inside a rocky planet's mantle -- suggest the compound could be the ...
Phoenix exoplanet’s puffy atmosphere survives red giant star
EarthSky· 5 days agoAstronomers have discovered a new “hot Neptune” exoplanet, using the TESS space telescope and W.M....
NASA funds tech development for life-hunting Habitable Worlds Observatory
SPACE.com· 3 days agoA central component of NASA's science work is to help answer whether life has emerged elsewhere in the cosmos. There are, however, a number of other stellar systems in the Milky Way with planets ...
Mysterious "Phoenix" world challenges theories of planetary evolution
Newsweek· 4 days agoAstronomers have discovered an unusual exoplanet that has managed to retain its atmosphere despite intense nearby radiation from a giant red star. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University found ...