Two GW researchers receive prestigious presidential award
Chunlei Liang and Volker J. Sorger received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and EngineersCredit: The George Washington University ...
Tag: Space/Planetary Science
Super salty, subzero Arctic water provides peek at possible life on other planets
Credit: Zac Cooper/University of Washington In recent years, the idea of life on other planets has become less far-fetched. NASA ...
‘Moon-forming’ circumplanetary disk discovered in distant star system
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) A. Isella; ESO Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have made the first-ever observations of ...
NASA selects UMD-led proposal to upgrade lunar instruments placed by Apollo missions
UMD physicist for Apollo experiment gets chance to send next gen version to moonCredit: Doug Currie, University of Maryland COLLEGE ...
Hubble uncovers black hole that shouldn’t exist
Credit: Hubble Image: NASA, ESA, S. Bianchi (Università degli Studi Roma Tre University), A. Laor (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology), and ...
Hubble discovers mysterious black hole disc
Credit: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed an unexpected thin disc of material encircling ...
Designed for space travel, new device can collect, analyze liquid as it passes by planets
Credit: The University of Texas at Arlington A chemist at The University of Texas at Arlington has engineered a device ...
Alternating currents cause Jupiter’s aurora
An international team of researchers has succeeded in measuring the current system responsible for Jupiter's aurora. Using data transmitted to ...
Bath honours world-leading astronomer
University of Bath awards Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell an Honorary Degree as part of its summer graduation celebrations The ...
Astronomers expand cosmic ‘cheat sheet’ in hunt for life
ITHACA, N.Y. - Using nature's color palette from early Earth, Cornell University astronomers have created a cosmic "cheat sheet" in ...
Pair of supermassive black holes discovered on a collision course
The titanic duo can help astronomers predict when the historic first detection of the background 'hum' of gravitational waves from ...
UCLA-developed terahertz sensors work at room temperature, unlike current technology
Light-sensing system could show distant galaxies in unprecedented detailCredit: UCLA Engineering Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have ...
Interstellar iron isn’t missing, it’s just hiding in plain sight
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Astrophysicists know that iron (chemical symbol: Fe) is one of the most abundant elements in the universe, after ...
Cleaning up the cosmic neighborhood
NASA grant to advance technology, help remove space debris from orbitCredit: Purdue University/David Spencer WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue ...
Tungsten as interstellar radiation shielding?
Metallophilic microorganisms could benefit from the heavy metal in harsh survival conditionsCredit: © Tetyana Milojevic A boiling point of 5900 ...
Could vacuum physics be revealed by laser-driven microbubble?
Credit: M. Murakami Osaka, Japan -- A "vacuum" is generally thought to be nothing but empty space. But in fact, ...
Exactly how fast is the universe expanding?
Princeton astrophysicists are closing in on the Hubble constantCredit: Video by Ore Gottlieb and Ehud Nakar, Tel Aviv University Exactly ...
Scientists develop new method for studying early life in ancient rocks
Research results could also inform the search for life on Mars Scientists have developed a new method for detecting traces ...
New method may resolve difficulty in measuring universe’s expansion
Neutron star mergers can provide new 'cosmic ruler' Astronomers using National Science Foundation (NSF) radio telescopes have demonstrated how a ...
Supercomputer shows ‘Chameleon Theory’ could change how we think about gravity
Credit: Christian Arnold/Baojiu Li/Durham University. Supercomputer simulations of galaxies have shown that Einstein's theory of General Relativity might not be ...
