Astronomers make first calculations of magnetic activity in ‘hot Jupiter’ exoplanets
Credit: NASA, ESA and A. Schaller (for STScI) Gas-giant planets orbiting close to other stars have powerful magnetic fields, many ...
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Drinking red wine on the red planet
Ingredient in grapes may protect against musculoskeletal atrophy in partial gravity BOSTON - You may remember Tang - the sugar-sweetened ...
NASA’s Webb Telescope shines with American ingenuity
Credit: Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center To send humans to the Moon 50 years ago, an entire nation rose ...
Red wine’s resveratrol could help Mars explorers stay strong, says Harvard study
Nutraceuticals that preserve muscle in reduced gravity will support long-term space missions Mars is about 9 months from Earth with ...
Diamond shines its light on Moon Rocks from Apollo Missions, Martian meteorites and Vesta
Nearly 50 years after our first steps on the Moon, samples from the Apollo missions, Mars and Vesta still have ...
Scientists deepen understanding of magnetic fields surrounding Earth and other planets
Credit: Elle Starkman / PPPL Office of Communications Vast rings of electrically charged particles encircle the Earth and other planets. ...
Super salty, subzero Arctic water provides peek at possible life on other planets
Credit: Zac Cooper/University of Washington In recent years, the idea of life on other planets has become less far-fetched. NASA ...
‘Moon-forming’ circumplanetary disk discovered in distant star system
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) A. Isella; ESO Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have made the first-ever observations of ...
NASA selects UMD-led proposal to upgrade lunar instruments placed by Apollo missions
UMD physicist for Apollo experiment gets chance to send next gen version to moonCredit: Doug Currie, University of Maryland COLLEGE ...
Designed for space travel, new device can collect, analyze liquid as it passes by planets
Credit: The University of Texas at Arlington A chemist at The University of Texas at Arlington has engineered a device ...
Alternating currents cause Jupiter’s aurora
An international team of researchers has succeeded in measuring the current system responsible for Jupiter's aurora. Using data transmitted to ...
Astronomers expand cosmic ‘cheat sheet’ in hunt for life
ITHACA, N.Y. - Using nature's color palette from early Earth, Cornell University astronomers have created a cosmic "cheat sheet" in ...
Supercomputer shows ‘Chameleon Theory’ could change how we think about gravity
Credit: Christian Arnold/Baojiu Li/Durham University. Supercomputer simulations of galaxies have shown that Einstein's theory of General Relativity might not be ...
Deep-CEE: The AI deep learning tool helping astronomers explore deep space
Credit: NASA/ESA Galaxy clusters are some of the most massive structures in the cosmos, but despite being millions of lightyears ...
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