Researchers receive $320,000 From NASA to study Martian polar caps
U of A Researchers will study how carbon-dioxide ice pits have formed and evolved over time to gain understanding of ...
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Boundary of heliosphere mapped for the first time
Using data from NASA's IBEX satellite, scientists created the first-ever 3D map of the boundary between our solar system and ...
Did heat from impacts on asteroids provide the ingredients for life on Earth?
Credit: Yasui et al. (2021) A research group from Kobe University has demonstrated that the heat generated by the impact ...
Story tips: Un-Earthly ice, buildings in the loop, batteries unbound and 3D printing for geothermal
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Neutrons - Space ice, un-Earthly cold Researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory successfully ...
Researchers prepare to send fungi for a ride around the moon
Credit: (U.S. Navy photo by Sarah Peterson) WASHINGTON -- Microbiologists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory are preparing experimental samples ...
Dark energy survey releases most precise look at the universe’s evolution
First three years of survey data uses observations of 226 million galaxies over 1/8 of the skyCredit: DOE/FNAL/DECam/R. Hahn/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA In ...
Deep oceans dissolve the rocky shell of water-ice planets
Credit: S. Speziale/ GFZ What is happening deep beneath the surface of ice planets? Is there liquid water, and if ...
The Belgian Francqui Prize 2021 awarded to Michaël Gillon
The prestigious scientific prize to Michaël Gillon for his pioneering research in exoplanetology and astrobiologyCredit: University of Liège - Michel ...
Johns Hopkins scientists model Saturn’s interior
Researchers simulate conditions necessary for planet's unique magnetic fieldCredit: Ankit Barik/Johns Hopkins University New Johns Hopkins University simulations offer an ...
UBCO researcher uses geology to help astronomers find habitable planets
Findings will help better identify Earth-like planets that could sustain lifeCredit: Image Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Astronomers have identified ...
Hubble watches how a giant planet grows
Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA, STScI, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a rare look at a ...
Measuring the Moon’s nano dust is no small matter
Credit: Credit: E. Garboczi/NIST and A. Sharits/AFRL Like a chameleon of the night sky, the Moon often changes its appearance. ...
Scientists don spacesuits to explore Hawaiian lava tubes as if they were on Mars
Credit: HI-SEAS MUNICH -- Imagine trying to pick up a pebble or scrape microbes off a cave wall in a ...
Astronomers detect first ever hydroxyl molecule signature in an exoplanet atmosphere
Credit: Astrobiology Center An international collaboration of astronomers led by a researcher from the Astrobiology Center and Queen's University Belfast, ...
Peering through the clouds of Earth’s ‘Evil Twin’ surprises NRL sky watchers
Credit: Photo by NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory/Guillermo Stenborg and Brendan Gallagher WASHINGTON - U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientists were ...
Study warns of ‘oxygen false positives’ in search for signs of life on other planets
Oxygen in the atmosphere may not be an entirely reliable 'biosignature,' but there are ways to distinguish false positives from ...
Skoltech studies collective behavior of nanosatellites
Credit: Skoltech Scientists from the Skoltech Space Center (SSC) have developed nanosatellite interaction algorithms for scientific measurements using a tetrahedral ...
Life on Venus? First we need to know more about molecules in the atmosphere
Credit: UNSW Sydney The search for life on other planets has received a major boost after scientists revealed the spectral ...
New research shows that Mars did not dry up all at once
Mars had dry and wet eras and dried up for good 3 billion years agoCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/CNES/CNRS/LANL/IRAP/IAS/LPGN LOS ALAMOS, N.M., April ...
First transiting exoplanet’s ‘chemical fingerprint’ reveals its distant birthplace
Astronomers have found evidence that the first exoplanet that was identified transiting its star could have migrated to a close ...
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