First X-rays from Uranus discovered
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXO/University College London/W. Dunn et al; Optical: W.M. Keck Observatory Astronomers have detected X-rays from Uranus for the ...
Tag: Planets/Moons
Launch of Europe’s largest astronomy network
Credit: M. Claro/ESO. Until now, Europe has had two major collaborative networks for ground-based astronomy, one in the optical wavelength ...
Curtin research finds first clues to start of Earth’s supercontinent cycle
Curtin University research has uncovered the first solid clues about the very beginning of the supercontinent cycle of Earth, finding ...
Powerful stratospheric winds measured on Jupiter for the first time
Credit: ESO/L. Calçada & NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is ...
Is there life on mars today and where?
Challenging assumptions about the possibility of modern life on MarsCredit: Credit Image: (b) NASA-JPL/MRO-University of Arizona (c) Lauro et al., ...
Lightning strikes played a vital role in life’s origins on Earth
Credit: Lucy Entwisle Lightning strikes were just as important as meteorites in creating the perfect conditions for life to emerge ...
SwRI researcher theorizes worlds with underground oceans support, conceal life
Layers of ice and rock obviate the need for "habitable zone" and shield life against threatsCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Southwest Research Institute SAN ...
There might be many planets with water-rich atmospheres
UChicago study finds way that hot, rocky planets in other systems could form and keep atmospheresCredit: Engine House VFX, At-Bristol ...
Skoltech and MIT researchers identify optimal human landing system architectures to land on the Moon
Credit: Pavel Odinev (Skoltech) Researchers from Skoltech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have analyzed several dozen options to pick ...
HAWC Gamma Ray Observatory discovers origin of highest-energy cosmic rays in the galaxy
Photon origins tracked to Cygnus OB2 star-forming regionCredit: TeV: Binita Hona (HAWC Collaboration), IR: Hora et. al, Spitzer's Growing Legacy, ...
Hubble sees new atmosphere forming on a rocky exoplanet
Credit: NASA, ESA, and R. Hurt (IPAC/Caltech) The planet GJ 1132 b appears to have begun life as a gaseous ...
How the habitability of exoplanets is influenced by their rocks
Credit: © Universität Bern / University of Bern, Illustration: Jenny Leibundgut The conditions on Earth are ideal for life. Most ...
Porous, ultralow-temperature supercapacitors could power Mars, polar missions
Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04780 NASA's Perseverance Rover recently made a successful landing on Mars, embarking on ...
Engineers propose solar-powered lunar ark as ‘modern global insurance policy’
The ambitious project proposed by a University of Arizona team aims to preserve humankind - and animal-kind, plant-kind and fungi-kind ...