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Astronomers have found water vapor in the disk around a young star right where planets are likely to form. In this image, the new observations from the ESO partner Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) show the water vapor in shades of blue. Near the center of the disc, where the young star lives, the environment is hotter and the gas is brighter. The red rings are previous ALMA observations showing the distribution of dust around the star.Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. Facchini et al.

Astronomers discover a new connection between water and the formation of planets

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An amount of water at least three times greater than the water in all the Earth's oceans was discovered in the inner disk of the young Sun-like star HL Tauri, 450 light-years away from Earth, in the Taurus group
An artist's impression of the Cassini spacecraft flying through plumes erupting from the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus. These geysers are very similar to geysers and emit a mixture of water vapor, ice grains, salts, methane and other organic molecules. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The Webb Space Telescope discovers a 10,000 km long plume of water erupting from Saturn's moon Enceladus

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This is the first time that such an emission of water has been seen from such a great distance, and in addition, the web allows researchers a direct view, for the first time, of how this emission feeds the water supply of the entire system of Saturn and its rings
A planet in the life zone or golden zone - where water can exist in a liquid state. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Golden zones abound: hundreds of millions of planets in the Milky Way could possibly support life

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A new study suggests that a third of the planets orbiting dwarf stars common to the Milky Way could potentially support life. As in the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, one plate is too hot, the second is too cold and the third is just right
Artist's rendering of the planet GJ 1214 b. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)

Glowing steamy surprise: NASA's Webb takes a closer look at a mysterious planet

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"The planet is completely covered in a kind of layer of fog or clouds," said Eliza Kempton, a researcher at the University of Maryland and lead author of a new paper on the planet published in Nature. "The atmosphere simply remained completely hidden from us until this observation." She noted that if the planet was indeed rich in water, it could have been a "water world", with large amounts of water and ice material at the time of its formation.
Murchison Widefield Array Radio Telescope Photo: GOLDSMITH/MWA COLLABORATION/CURTIN UNIVERSITY

SETI: Australian researchers seek to find intelligent life on planets outside the solar system

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Absorption lines of iron and nickel atoms in spectroscopy of data obtained from ESO's Very Large Telescope

Vapors of heavy metals were unexpectedly found in comet Borisov that arrived outside the solar system

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A new study conducted by a Belgian research team found that the metals iron and nickel are found in the atmospheres of comets traveling in our solar system, even those far from the sun. The findings were obtained with the help of data collected from the very large telescope which is located on the Cerro Paranal mountain, at an altitude of 2,635 meters in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile
The Evaporative Preserver SUV. Image: NASA

Mars and beyond: How scientists are preventing Earth's bacteria from contaminating other planets

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And what does it have to do with the Genesis mission that crashed on the moon? For 50 years, government organizations adhered to the accepted rules and laws for self-defense of the solar system against terrestrial pollution. Now they are being joined by an increasing number of commercial space missions. How to enforce the law on them?
The surface of Venus and its atmosphere, where phosphines are at cloud level. Figure: ESO

Has a chemical marker for the possibility of life on the surface of Venus been discovered?

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Astronomers have discovered a rare element - phosphine - in the clouds of the planet Venus. On Earth, this gas is only produced in industry or it is emitted by bacteria living in an oxygen-limited environment
The location of the telescopes of the Breakthrough Listen project. PR photo

Breakthrough Listen released two petabytes of alien search data

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Planets of all kinds. Illustration: shutterstock

Detecting water vapor in the atmosphere of an Earth-like planet is a big step toward discovering life in space

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The structure of the substance glycolonitrile and the celestial gram in which it was found [Courtesy: Víctor M. Rivilla & Ben Mills & Herschel-SPIRE 500 microns]

A building block of life has been located in the star formation region of space

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The TESS space telescope against the backdrop of a hot planet close to its sun. Illustration: NASA GODDARD

The TESS space telescope will be launched - will search for rocky planets in other solar systems

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This image shows the spectacular region of star formation where methyl isocyanate is found. Inside the circle - an illustration showing the molecular structure of this chemical. Image: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2/L. Calçada

One of the basic building blocks of life was discovered in solar systems in the stages of their formation

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Super Earth LHS 1140b and the Sun it orbits. Imaging: ESO

A planet has been discovered that may allow liquid water - a necessary condition for life

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The simulation aims to highlight the temperature differences that researchers hypothesize exist between the discovered planets. The inner two are too close and therefore would be too hot for liquid water, the middle three are in the sitting area where liquid water might be possible, while the outer two are too far away, and apparently, if there is water in them, they are frozen. Imaging: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

NASA's discovery of seven terrestrial planets in one system will spur a widespread hunt for similar systems

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Simulation of the lander. According to the proposal, the lander will be launched between 2024-2025 and will arrive several years after the arrival of the EMFM probe, which will make many flybys near Europe. It will be able to photograph it at a very high resolution to find safe but scientifically interesting landing sites, and roly noses like the one described in the simulation - near plumes of water coming out as geysers from the moon Atal past Hal, and it is estimated that, if they do exist in Europe, they originate in its sub-ice ocean. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

NASA is considering developing a lander to search for life on Jupiter's moon Europa

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Geyser on the moon Europa. Image: NASA

The moon Europa returns to the center stage of the search for water and life

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Rosetta's comet in August 2015, when it was closest to the Sun, when most of the glycine was detected. Photo: European Space Agency

Rosetta's comet contains ingredients necessary for life

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An artist's rendering of a view from the surface of one of the three planets orbiting the cold dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 40 light-years away. CREDIT: ESO/M. KORNMESSER

Three planets with potential for life orbit a cold red dwarf close to the solar system

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The thin, dark streaks on the slopes of Bamai hills like the one in the section of the Horowitz Crater could have been formed by the seasonal flow of water on present-day Mars. The channels are several hundred meters long

Scientists from Stanford: discovery of flowing water on Mars increases the chances of life on the planet

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An artist's illustration of the Kepler 11 solar system featuring a Sun-like star and six planets. Telescopes designed to search for planets are finding more and more worlds with a chance of discovering life, including over 50% of the potential planets in the habitable zone. NASA's chief scientist said that "strong evidence" of extraterrestrial life will be discovered within a few years

NASA scientist "In 20-30 years we will be able to discover life in space, but not necessarily intelligent (video)

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Pictured: Kepler Hall of Fame: Of the over a thousand confirmed planets discovered by the Kepler space telescope, eight are less than two Earth diameters in diameter and are in the habitable zone of their Sun. All eight orbit stars smaller and colder than the Sun. Image: NASA

Kepler discovered the thousandth planet

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A planet scarred by tectonic activity on the eve of its sun becoming a red giant. Image: University of Washington

A large exoplanet increases the chances of sustaining life on Earth-like planets over time

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A planet with a thick atmosphere. Image: NASA

Did pre-living molecules form in the atmospheres of distant planets?

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A living creature discovered at a height of 27 kilometers in the atmosphere. Did it come from space? Photo: University of Sheffield

Living creatures from space or just drifting?

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