Cosmic X-rays reveal an indubitable signature of black holes
Credit: Srimanta Banerjee, Sudip Bhattacharyya, Marat Gilfanov An international team of astrophysicists has found distinctive signatures of black hole event ...
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Ryugu’s rocky past
Different kinds of rocks on Ryugu provide clues to the asteroid's turbulent historyCredit: © 2020 Tatsumi et al. The asteroid ...
Corona-induced CO2 emission reductions are not yet detectable in the atmosphere
Effects of the pandemic will be detected in the atmosphere much later - To reach the Paris climate goals, decade-long ...
Neil deGrasse Tyson speaks out on space, politics, and science outreach
Credit: Patrick McElhenney/FOX The BioScience Talks podcast features discussions of topical issues related to the biological sciences. In the latest ...
Hubble captures crisp new portrait of Jupiter’s storms
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), and the OPAL team ...
How 13 billion years of cosmic evolution has ultimately led to intelligent life
New book illustrates up-to-date findings in cosmology and exobiologyCredit: World Scientific In March 1995, Ben Zuckerman and Matt Malkan hosted ...
Making space weather forecasts faster and better
UC San Diego engineer Boris Kramer is part of a team that will develop software to forecast space storms.Credit: NASA ...
Major NSF grant accelerates development of the Giant Magellan Telescope
One of the world's most powerful telescopes begins development of revolutionary optical technologies necessary to transform humanity's view and understanding ...
Device could help detect signs of extraterrestrial life
Credit: Adapted from Analytical Chemistry 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c01628 Although Earth is uniquely situated in the solar system to support creatures ...
Unraveling a spiral stream of dusty embers from a massive binary stellar forge
Credit: Lau et al. With almost two decades of mid-infrared (IR) imaging from the largest observatories around the world including ...
Modern theory from ancient impacts
Meteorite study calls into doubt a popular theory about the early solar systemCredit: © Sano et al. Around 4 billion ...
SwRI scientist searches for stellar phosphorus to find potentially habitable exoplanets
Stellar chemical compositions used as proxy for potentially habitable systemsCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech SAN ANTONIO -- Sept. 16, 2020 -- A Southwest ...
EDF, NASA, DRI, Google announce web application to transform water management in the West
OpenET will provide easily accessible satellite-based water data to help build a resilient future for agricultureCredit: OpenET (SACRAMENTO, CA -- ...
Elements of surprise: neutron stars contribute little, but something’s making gold, research finds
Colliding neutron stars were touted as the main source of some of the heaviest elements in the Periodic Table. Now, ...