Discovery of the Closest Terrestrial Planet among Planet Candidates by the Kepler Satellite
Summary The team led by researchers from the Astrobiology Center disco…
Revealing the Mechanism of Antarctic Algae’s Photosynthesis Using Infrared Light. A New Key to Extraterrestrial Life?
Key Points: Research Overview: A research team led by Dr. Makiko Kosug…
Discovery of Reaction Pathways for Creating DNA and RNA Components Outside the Earth by Quantum Chemistry Calculations
Researchers Yu Komatsu and Daiki Suzuki (currently affiliated with the…
Direct Imaging Uncovers a Giant Planet-Like Brown Dwarf in the Hyades Cluster
A brown dwarf orbiting the Sun-like star HIP 21152 was discovered usin…
Can We Detect Photosynthetic Fluorescence in Space?
Yu Komatsu, a researcher at the Astrobiology Center (ABC), and his col…
Discovery of a Super-Earth in the Habitable Zone
Two super-Earths around the low-temperature star LP 890-9 (also known …