Tag: Space/Planetary Science

Credit: NASA/Theresa Johnson NASA astrophysicists and engineers are adapting detectors used by earthbound supercolliders and creating them the same way ...

ALMA captures stirred-up planet factory

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Huang and S. Andrews; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello Planet-forming environments can be much more complex and chaotic ...

Iron-rich meteorites show record of core crystallization in system’s oldest planetesimals

To truly understand what makes our planet capable of sustaining life, and to look for habitable worlds elsewhere, it is ...

Surprisingly young galaxy breaks low-oxygen record

Rare, extremely metal-poor nearby galaxy discovered with machine learningCredit: Credit: NAOJ/Kojima et al. Maunakea, Hawaii - Astronomers using two Maunakea ...

Satellite survey shows California’s sinking coastal hotspots

Credit: Source: USGS NED. A majority of the world population lives on low lying lands near the sea, some of ...

Differences between discs of active and non-active galaxies detected for the first time

Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC). This study, just accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters, is the first ...

NASA sun data helps new model predict big solar flares

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO Using data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, scientists have developed a new ...

Surprising number of exoplanets could host life

New insight to inform future NASA missionsCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Our solar system has one habitable planet -- Earth. A new study ...

NASA’s Webb Telescope will study Jupiter, its rings, and two intriguing moons

Credit: Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM Jupiter, named for the king of the ancient Roman gods, commands its own mini-version of our solar ...

ALMA finds possible sign of neutron star in supernova 1987A

July 30, 2020

Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, B. Saxton Two teams of astronomers have made a compelling case in the 33-year-old mystery surrounding Supernova 1987A. ...

Stunning space butterfly captured by ESO telescope

July 30, 2020

Credit: ESO Resembling a butterfly with its symmetrical structure, beautiful colours, and intricate patterns, this striking bubble of gas -- ...

Best place on Earth to see stars is at remote site in Antarctica, study shows

July 30, 2020

Credit: Photo: Zhaohui Shang Have you ever wondered why stars twinkle? It's because turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere makes light ...

Cosmic tango between the very small and the very large

July 29, 2020

Theory of loop quantum cosmology describes how tiny primordial features account for anomalies at the largest scales of the universeCredit: ...

How stony-iron meteorites form