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 ...
Tag: Space/Planetary Science
Missing baryons found in far-out reaches of galactic halos
Berkeley Lab physicists play key role in studies that solve a cosmological mysteryCredit: NASA Researchers have channeled the universe's earliest ...
A new satellite-measured “Solar-induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence” (SIF) product aims to improve carbon neutrality research
Credit: TanSat team Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) is emitted during plant photosynthesis. SIF results from vegetation chlorophyll giving off red ...
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., ...
Image release: Cosmic lens reveals faint radio galaxy
Natural magnification enables discoveryCredit: Heywood et al.; Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF; STScI. Radio telescopes are the world's most sensitive radio receivers, ...
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 ...
NASA partners with companies to test satellite fixtures for robotic grappling
Credit: NASA NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has chosen three companies to participate in a new partnership ...
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 ...
Debris of stellar explosion found at unusual location
eROSITA space telescope finds largest supernova remnant ever discovered with X-raysCredit: eROSITA/MPE (X-ray), CHIPASS / SPASS / N. Hurley-Walker, ICRAR-Curtin ...
Scientists sketch aged star system using over a century of observations
Credit: Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA/GESTAR) Astronomers have painted their best picture yet of an RV Tauri ...
Astronomers detect a black hole on the move
Astronomers have detected a moving supermassive black holeCredit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Scientists have long theorized that supermassive black ...
Chinese solar telescope reveals acceleration of magnetic reconnection
Credit: LI Leping Magnetic reconnection refers to the reconfiguration of magnetic field geometry. It plays an elemental role in the ...
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 ...
Polarization: From better sunglasses to a better way of looking at asteroid surfaces
Unique technique may help planetary defense prepare for asteroids on a collision course with EarthCredit: Credit: Arecibo Observatory/Israel Cabrera Using ...
Distant planet may be on its second atmosphere, NASA’s Hubble finds
Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA, and R. Hurt (IPAC/Caltech) Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence that a planet ...
Tracking cosmic ghosts
Frontera supercomputer, a community resource for IceCube Neutrino Observatory research, enables the discovery of new high-energy particleCredit: IceCube Collaboration The ...
A monumental particle accelerator in the Cygnus Cocoon
Credit: Source: IFJ PAN / HAWC At the heart of Cygnus, one of the most beautiful constellations of the summer ...
