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Lab made cosmic dust experiment reveals paths to life chemistry
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 06, 2026 A PhD candidate at the University of Sydney has recreated a small slice of cosmic chemistry in the laboratory by manufacturing carbon rich dust under conditions that mimic space. Working in the School of Physics, materials and plasma physics researcher Linda Losurdo used a simple set of gases to simulate the harsh environments near aging stars and supernova remnants, then tracked how they assembled into complex solids. Losurdo and her supervisor, Professor David McKenzie, filled evacuated glass tu ... read more |
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Survey of 80 near Earth asteroids sharpens view of their origins and risksTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 06, 2026 Near Earth asteroids are small bodies whose orbits cross or come close to Earth, making them key tracers of Solar System formation and evolution as well as potential impact hazards for our planet. ... more 
Einstein effect clears planets from tight double star systemsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2026 Of the more than 4,500 stars known to have planets, one puzzling statistic stands out. Even though nearly all stars are expected to have planets and most stars form in pairs, planets that orbit both ... more 
Engineered microbes use light to build new moleculesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2026 Researchers are developing new ways to reprogram the cellular machinery of microbes such as yeast and bacteria so they can manufacture useful products for medicine and industry. A team at the Carl R ... more 
Metal rich winds detected in giant dusty cloud around distant starLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026 Sweeping winds of vaporized metals have been detected in a massive cloud of gas and dust that dimmed the light of a distant star for nearly nine months, offering a rare view of late stage planetary ... more |
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Frozen hydrogen cyanide crystals may have helped spark early chemistry for lifeLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2026 Hydrogen cyanide is highly poisonous to humans, yet new work suggests it could have played a constructive role in the emergence of life on early Earth and in other cold environments in the solar sys ... more 
Berkeley Scientists set to home in on 100 signals from Seti at HomeBerkeley, 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 - calle ... more 
Scientist wins 'Environment Nobel' for shedding light on hidden fungal networksWashington, United States (AFP) Jan 14, 2026 Beneath the surface of forests, grasslands and farms across the world, vast fungal webs form underground trading systems to exchange nutrients with plant roots, acting as critical climate regulators as they draw down 13 billion tons of carbon annually. ... more 
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 |
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M dwarf plasma torus offers window into space weather and planetary habitability
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 Carnegie researcher Luke Bouma is using a naturally occurring plasma structure around certain young M dwarf stars as a kind of space weather station to investigate how stellar particles shape planetary environments and potential habitability. M dwarfs are smaller, cooler and dimmer than the Sun and commonly host at least one Earth-sized rocky planet, many of which are either too hot for liquid water or subjected to frequent flares and intense radiation that can strip or alter planetary atmospheres. ... read 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 |
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Puffy young exoplanets reveal origin of super EarthsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 Astronomers have identified a young planetary system that links newborn giant worlds to the compact super Earths and sub Neptunes that dominate the Milky Way. V1298 Tau, a star about 20 million year ... 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 
We finally know how the most common types of planets are createdLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2026 Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune orbit most stars. Oddly, our sun lacks such a planet. That's been a source ... more 
NASA selects industry partners to mature Habitable Worlds Observatory technologiesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2026 NASA has chosen a set of industry proposals to advance technologies for its Habitable Worlds Observatory concept, a planned flagship space telescope intended to directly image Earth-like planets aro ... more 
K dwarf survey maps stellar neighborhood for habitable worldsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2026 A Georgia State University astronomy graduate student has led a new survey of nearby K-type stars to identify targets where Earth-like planets could provide conditions suitable for life. Sebastian C ... more |
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