T2K insight into the origin of the universe
Credit: Kamioka Observatory, ICRR (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research), The University of Tokyo Lancaster physicists working on the T2K major ...
Tag: Planets/Moons
Wits researchers unravel the mystery of non-cotectic magmatic rocks
Research answers question on how some magmatic rocks contain random proportions of minerals than what is expected for rocks of ...
Discovery of life in solid rock deep beneath sea may inspire new search for life on Mars
Bacteria live in tiny clay-filled cracks in solid rock millions of years oldCredit: Caitlin Devor, University of Tokyo, CC BY ...
On Mars or Earth, biohybrid can turn carbon dioxide into new products
Bacteria on nanowires convert sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to organic building blocksCredit: UC Berkeley photo by Peidong Yang If ...
Astronaut urine to build moon bases
Credit: ESA, Foster and Partners The modules that the major space agencies plan to erect on the Moon could incorporate ...
BU astrophysicist and collaborators reveal a new model of our heliosphere
Credit: Image courtesy of Opher, et. al The heliosphere, despite its name, is not actually a sphere. Space physicists have ...
Observed: An exoplanet where it rains iron
Credit: Credits: ESO/M. Kornmesser This exoplanet, 390 light years away towards the constellation Pisces, has days when its surface temperatures ...
Safety zone saves giant moons from fatal plunge
Credit: Nagoya University Numerical simulations showed that the temperature gradient in the disk of gas around a young gas giant ...
Lunar lasers and cosmic crops: NASA funds UArizona space exploration missions
NASA funding will support UArizona teams working on ways to harvest water and produce crops in space.Credit: NASA Many things ...
Space weather model gives earlier warning of satellite-killing radiation storms
Two-day notice lets satellite operators take protective measures against energetic electronsCredit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., March 2, ...
What if mysterious ‘cotton candy’ planets actually sport rings?
Some of the extremely low-density, 'cotton candy like' exoplanets called super-puffs may actually have ringsCredit: Illustration is by Robin Dienel ...
Scientists seize rare chance to watch faraway star system evolve
At only 1% the age of the sun, the DS Tuc binary system shows us how a planet might naturally ...
Life on Titan cannot rely on cell membranes, according to computational simulations
Credit: Johan Bodell7Chalmers Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have made a new contribution to the ongoing search into ...
Astronomy student discovers 17 new planets, including Earth-sized world
Credit: Michelle Kunimoto University of British Columbia astronomy student Michelle Kunimoto has discovered 17 new planets, including a potentially habitable, ...
The seismicity of Mars
Credit: NASA / JPL - Caltech On 26 November 2018, the NASA InSight lander successfully set down on Mars in ...
Sub-Neptune sized planet validated with the habitable-zone planet finder
Credit: Gudmundur Stefansson (left) and Ethan Tweedie Photography (right) A signal originally detected by the Kepler spacecraft has been validated ...
How newborn stars prepare for the birth of planets
ALMA and VLA observe hundreds of planet-forming disks around infant starsCredit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Tobin; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello; Herschel/ESA An ...
The Earth formed much faster than previously thought
Credit: StarPlan, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen The precursor of our planet, the proto-Earth, formed within a time span of ...
18-hour year planet on edge of destruction
Astronomers from the University of Warwick have observed an exoplanet orbiting a star in just over 18 hours, the shortest ...
Galactic cosmic rays affect Titan’s atmosphere
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Planetary scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) revealed the secrets of the atmosphere of ...