Astrobiology Magazine

Astrobiology Magazine

[:es]Plants have the edge in the search for life beyond Earth [:]

The reflected light from vegetation, particularly on older, hotter planets, could give away the existence of life elsewhere in the Universe, new research from scientists at the Carl Sagan Institute […]
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[:es] How life could help atmospheric tides slow a planet’s rotation [:]

Resonating oscillations of a planet’s atmosphere caused by gravitational tides and heating from its star could prevent a planet’s rotation from steadily slowing over time, according to new research by […]
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[:es]Rocky? Habitable? Sizing up a Galaxy of Planets [:]

The planets so far discovered across the Milky Way are a motley, teeming multitude: hot Jupiters, gas giants, small, rocky worlds and mysterious planets larger than Earth and smaller than […]
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[:es]Rocky? Habitable? Sizing up a Galaxy of Planets [:]

The planets so far discovered across the Milky Way are a motley, teeming multitude: hot Jupiters, gas giants, small, rocky worlds and mysterious planets larger than Earth and smaller than […]
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[:es]Vesta, tell us about the childhood of the Solar System [:]

Investigating the earliest and least known phases of the history of the Solar System, when the young Sun was still enveloped by the disk of gas and dust where its […]
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[:es]Observing the development of a deep-sea greenhouse gas filter [:]

On sites of the seafloor that are more turbulent than most others – for example gas seeps or so-called underwater volcanoes -, the microbes remove just one tenth to one […]
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[:es]Earth’s oxygen increased in gradual steps rather than big bursts [:]

A carbon cycle anomaly discovered in carbonate rocks of the Neoproterozoic Hüttenberg Formation of north-eastern Namibia follows a pattern similar to that found right after the Great Oxygenation Event, hinting […]
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[:es]Start of hard rock excavation for the Giant Magellan Telescope[:]

GMTO Corporation (GMTO) announced on Aug. 14 the start of hard rock excavation for the Giant Magellan Telescope’s massive concrete pier and the foundations for the telescope’s enclosure on its […]
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[:es]The value of seagrass in securing a sustainable planet [:]

Researchers believe that improving knowledge of how seagrasses are important for biodiversity, fisheries and our global carbon cycle in turn needs to be reflected with greater protection for these sensitive […]