by apai | May 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
A blog entry on the kick-off meeting of the new NExSS program at NASA HQ by PI Daniel Apai: http://distantearths.com/nexss-kick-off/
by apai | Apr 25, 2015 | News
Article appeared in the Arizona Daily Star: http://tinyurl.com/nteh6h4 April 22, 2015 7:29 pm • By Tom Beal “I think we’re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade, and I think we’re going to have definitive evidence within 20 to 30...
by apai | Apr 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
NASA’s NExSS Coalition to Lead Search for Life on Distant Worlds NASA is bringing together experts spanning a variety of scientific fields for an unprecedented initiative dedicated to the search for life on planets outside our solar system. The Nexus for Exoplanet...
by apai | Mar 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
EOS team investigators Fred Ciesla, Ilaria Pascucci, and Daniel Apai publish a paper on the delivery of volatiles to low-mass planets orbiting red dwarf stars. The team finds that including more realistic starting conditions (a larger number of planetesimals and...
by apai | Mar 3, 2015 | News
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Researcher to work on the chemical evolution of protoplanetary disks and primitive materials at the University of Chicago. The successful applicant will work directly with Professor Fred Ciesla and in collaboration with...
by apai | Feb 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to take the most detailed picture to date of a large, edge-on, gas-and-dust disk encircling the 20-million-year-old star Beta Pictoris. Beta Pictoris remains the only directly imaged debris disk that has a...
by apai | Feb 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
In the search for Earth-size planets elsewhere in the Milky Way, lower-mass stars make for more promising hunting grounds, UA astronomers have discovered. By Daniel Stolte, University Relations – Communication | February 17, 2015 In the search for Earth-size...
by apai | Feb 15, 2015 | News
In December 2014 the NASA Astrobiology program has selected our EOS Team for an award enabling a 5-year, in-depth study of the formation of habitable exoplanets with right set of ingredients to support life. We are excited by the opportunity and looking forward to the...
