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'Planetary defense is knowing what's out there and what could do harm to us.' Meet the scientist who helped build NASA's asteroid response plan
Lindley Johnson has been a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...
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How artificial intelligence is helping scientists hunt for alien Earths
"The algorithm achieves precision values of up to 0.99, which means that 99% of the systems identified by the ...
Astrophysicists Discover That Millions of Interstellar Objects Could Be Hiding in Our Solar System
A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system ...
Scientists decipher mysterious atmosphere of 'Rosetta Stone' exoplanet
A Southwest Research Institute-led study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, ...
The Prototype: NASA Budget Cuts Threaten Scientific Discovery
In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at potential first signs of life on another world, an FDA greenlight for ...
Indian-origin scientist discovers signs of alien life outside Solar System
Scientists have detected possible biosignature gases in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18 b -- gases produced only by life on ...
How many Earth-like planets are in the Milky Way? AI has the answer
An Artificial Intelligence model has predicted that our galaxy has 44 planets that are just like Earth. Scientists say the ...
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'Planetary defense is knowing what's out there and what could do harm to us.' Meet the scientist who helped build NASA's asteroid response plan
Johnson: When you first discover things that ... and what that capability provides for planetary defense. Also, it will provide very interesting asteroid science. NASA's OSIRIS-APEX probe will ...
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K2-18 b could have dimethyl sulfide in its air. But is it a sign of life?
Fresh data from the James Webb Space Telescope provide more evidence for what some consider a biosignature — but debate is ...
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Planetary scientists reveal how the Earth and Moon actually formed
Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...
The “Rosetta Stone” of Alien Worlds: NASA’s Webb Unmasks a Super-Earth With a Scorching Atmosphere
A bold geochemical model reveals that TOI‑270 d, a sub‑Neptune 73 light‑years away, is likely a giant rocky world cloaked in ...