UTSA tapped by NASA to help build homes on the moon and Mars
Credit: Photo courtesy of UTSA (San Antonio, Apr. 10, 2019) -- The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has ...
Tag: Planets/Moons
New model accurately predicts harmful space weather
Predicting 'killer' electrons in the Earth's outer radiation belt protects spacecraftCredit: NASA's Conceptual Image Lab/Walt Feimer LOS ALAMOS, N.M., April ...
Life could be evolving right now on nearest exoplanets
ITHACA, N.Y. - Rocky, Earth-like planets orbiting our closest stars could host life, according to a new study that raises ...
The research of Samara scientists will help to explain how building material for planets appears in the universe
The team of scientists proposed a sequence of transformations starting from a chemical compound -- a triphenylene molecule -- to ...
New book about the IAU published
Credit: Springer/IAU The International Astronomical Union (IAU) was founded in 1919, in the wake of the First World War, together ...
Sun, moon and sea as part of a ‘seismic probe’
Tides and surf can be used for non-destructive analysis of subsurface; study highlighted by American Physical SocietyCredit: C. Sens-Schönfelder, GFZ ...
Stunning discovery offers glimpse of minutes following ‘dinosaur-killer’ Chicxulub impact
LAWRENCE -- A study to be published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a scientific ...
Data flows from NASA’s TESS Mission, leads to discovery of Saturn-sized planet
Credit: Illustration by Gabriel Perez Diaz, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias AMES, Iowa - Astronomers who study stars are providing ...
GRAVITY instrument breaks new ground in exoplanet imaging
Cutting-edge VLTI instrument reveals details of a storm-wracked exoplanet using optical interferometryCredit: ESO/L. Calçada The GRAVITY instrument on ESO's Very ...
Earth’s deep mantle flows dynamically
As ancient ocean floors plunge over 1,000 km into the Earth's deep interior, they cause hot rock in the lower ...
Icy giant planets in the laboratory
HZDR researchers use plastics to better understand what happens inside planetsCredit: HZDR / J. Vorberger Giant planets like Uranus and ...
OSIRIS-REx spies on the weird, wild gravity of an asteroid
Research led by the University of Colorado Boulder is revealing the Alice in Wonderland-like physics that govern gravity near the ...
Carbon monoxide detectors could warn of extraterrestrial life
For some distant worlds, carbon monoxide may actually be compatible with a robust microbial biosphereCredit: NASA, ESA, G. Bacon (STScI) ...
Dartmouth’s Marcelo Gleiser wins 2019 Templeton Prize
Credit: Dartmouth College/Eli Burakian HANOVER, N.H. - March 19, 2019 - Marcelo Gleiser, the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and ...