Setting gold and platinum standards where few have gone before
Extreme pressure at Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national labsCredit: Photo by Leo Molina ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Like two superheroes finally ...
Tag: Planets/Moons
WVU advances collaborative research with renewal of NANOGrav Physics Frontiers Center
The University is part of a team recently awarded a $17 million grant from the National Science FoundationCredit: Submitted photo ...
Nightside radio could help reveal exoplanet details
Rice team enhances models that will detect magnetospheres in distant solar systemsCredit: Anthony Sciola/Rice University HOUSTON - (June 22, 2021) ...
Researchers trace dust grain’s journey through newborn solar system
Combining atomic-scale sample analysis and models simulating likely conditions in the nascent solar system, the study revealed clues about the ...
Crustal block tectonics offer clues to Venus’ geology, study finds
New study that includes contributions by Baylor planetary geophysicist Peter James, identifies previously unrecognized pattern of tectonic deformation on VenusCredit: ...
Scientists detect signatures of life remotely
Credit: Courtesy of Lucas Patty Left hands and right hands are almost perfect mirror images of each other. But whatever ...
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 ...
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 ...