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Berkeley Scientists set to home in on 100 signals from Seti at Home
Berkeley, United States (SPX) Jan 12, 2026 For 21 years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people worldwide loaned UC Berkeley scientists their computers to search for signs of advanced civilizations in our galaxy. The project - called SETI@home, after the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) - generated a loyal following eager to participate in one of the most popular crowd-sourced projects in the early days of the internet. They downloaded the SETI@home software to their home computers and allowed it to analyze data recorded ... read more |
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Mixed crystal phase of superionic water mapped inside giant planetsBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2026 Temperatures of several thousand degrees Celsius and pressures of millions of atmospheres drive water into a superionic state in which hydrogen ions move freely through a solid lattice of oxygen ato ... more 
Pandora exoplanet mission checks in after launchLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2026 NASA mission controllers have acquired full signal from the agency's Pandora small satellite, confirming the health and initial operations of the exoplanet observatory following launch from Vandenbe ... more 
Creating hallucination-free, psychedelic-like molecules by shining light on life's basic building blocksDavis CA (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 UC Davis researchers have developed a new method that uses light to transform amino acids - the building blocks of proteins - into molecules that are similar in structure to psychedelics and mimic t ... more 
Giant amoeba virus ushikuvirus sheds light on how complex cells evolvedTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 Giant DNA viruses that infect amoebae are providing new evidence that viruses may have helped drive the evolution of complex life, according to researchers at Tokyo University of Science and the Nat ... more |
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ALMA views giant dusty disk in Gomezs Hamburger with signs of early giant planet formationLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 06, 2026 Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ALMA have identified the earliest phases of giant planet formation inside the dense layers of gas and dust in the nearly edge-on di ... more 
Rogue planet mass pinned down for the first timeTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 06, 2026 Peking University, January 2, 2026: A coordinated observation campaign using space- and ground-based telescopes has yielded the first precise mass measurement of a rogue planet, confirming that one ... more 
Joint ground- and space-based observations reveal Saturn-mass rogue planetWashington DC (SPX) Jan 03, 2026 Simultaneous ground- and space-based observations of a newly discovered free-floating planet have enabled direct measurement of its mass and distance from Earth, according to a new study. The findin ... more 
Deep Arctic gas hydrate mounds host ultra deep cold seep ecosystemBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 01, 2026 A multinational research team led by UiT The Arctic University of Norway has identified the deepest known gas hydrate cold seep on Earth during the Ocean Census Arctic Deep - EXTREME24 expedition, d ... more 
Philosopher argues AI consciousness may remain unknowableLondon, UK (SPX) (SPX) Jan 01, 2026 A University of Cambridge philosopher argues that current evidence about consciousness is too limited to determine whether artificial intelligence becomes conscious, and that a reliable test for mac ... more |
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Clues to the migration path of hot Jupiters in their orbits
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 16, 2025 The first exoplanet discovered in 1995 was a hot Jupiter, a Jupiter mass planet orbiting its star every few days. Today, models indicate that hot Jupiters form far from their stars, similar to Jupiter in the Solar System, and later move inward. Two main migration channels are considered: high-eccentricity migration, in which gravitational perturbations excite the orbit before tidal forces circularize it close to the star, and disk migration, in which the planet drifts inward through the protoplanetary d ... read more 
Hubble pinpoints asteroid smash ups in nearby Fomalhaut systemBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 01, 2026 In a historical milestone, catastrophic collisions in a nearby planetary system were witnessed for the first time by astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. As they observed the brigh ... more |
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Evolution study finds history and environment shifts can steer species in very different directionsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 Every living organism must operate in environments that change over time, such as seasonal shifts between heat and cold or alternating years of drought and heavy rain. University of Vermont scientis ... more 
Webb maps carbon rich atmosphere on distorted pulsar planetBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have identified an exoplanet with an atmosphere unlike any seen before, orbiting a rapidly spinning neutron star known as a pulsar. The object, off ... more 
Can scientists detect life without knowing what it looks likeAtlanta GA (SPX) Dec 16, 2025 When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing. ... more 
Ultra hot super Earth shows dense atmosphere over magma oceanLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 A Carnegie-led team using NASAs James Webb Space Telescope has obtained the strongest evidence so far for an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet, detecting a substantial gaseous envelope around the ... more 
Hidden circumbinary giant planet emerges from decade old Gemini dataBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 Astronomers have directly imaged a giant exoplanet orbiting a pair of stars, in a configuration reminiscent of the fictional Tatooine system but with the closest-known directly imaged planet to its ... more |
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