Tag: Space/Planetary Science

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has confirmed the tiniest planet in its catalog so far -- one of three discovered ...

Space station mold survives high doses of ionizing radiation

New research presented at the 2019 Astrobiology Science Conference in Bellevue, Wa. BELLEVUE, WA--The International Space Station, like all human ...

Old at heart: Solution to red giants’ age paradox

A group of red giants discovered four years ago seems to be old and young at the same time. Scientists ...

Mimicking the ultrastructure of wood with 3D-printing for green products

Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have succeeded in 3D printing with a ...

The first AI universe sim is fast and accurate — and its creators don’t know how it works

June 26, 2019

The new model can envision universes with unique parameters, such as extra dark matter, even without receiving training data in ...

ALMA pinpoints the formation site of planet around nearest young star

June 26, 2019

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Tsukagoshi et al. Researchers using ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) found a small dust concentration in the ...

Cyanide compounds discovered in meteorites may hold clues to the origin of life

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Cyanide and carbon monoxide are both deadly poisons to humans, but ...

Hubble finds tiny ‘electric soccer balls’ in space, helps solve interstellar mystery

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the presence of electrically-charged molecules in space shaped like soccer ...

SwRI-led team studies binaries to make heads or tails of planet formation

Kuiper Belt object orientations support streaming instability hypothesisCredit: HST/StSci/SwRI/Simon Porter SAN ANTONIO -- June 25, 2019 -- A Southwest Research ...

NRL payloads deployed by SpaceX to study space weather and spacecraft propulsion

Credit: (Graphic courtesy of NASA/Ball Aerospace) WASHINGTON - U.S. Naval Research Laboratory researchers designed and built two science payloads that ...

SwRI scientist develops novel algorithm to aid search for exoplanets

Machine learning tool allows scientists to search stellar data for likely exoplanet host starsCredit: ESO/M. Kornmesser SAN ANTONIO -- June ...

Dung beetles get wind

Insects use different environmental cues to find their way in African bushCredit: Chris Collinridge/Wits University Researchers have shown for the ...

Graphene goes to space!

The Graphene Flagship participates in a sounding-rocket launch in collaboration with the European Space Agency to test the printing of ...

Star tours

Astronomy bot speeds up search for Jupiter's twinsCredit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have a new tool in their search for extraterrestrial ...

Researchers model how octopus arms make decisions (+ video)

New research presented at the 2019 Astrobiology Science Conference in Bellevue, Wa.Credit: Dominic Sivitilli/ University of Washington BELLEVUE, WA--Researchers studying ...

Tokyo Tech-led study shows how icy outer solar system satellites may have formed

Scientists use sophisticated computer simulations and observations of trans-Neptunian objects to understand the formation of the solar systemCredit: NASA/APL/SwRI/ESA/STScI Using ...

NASA makes dual investment in ocean worlds research at WHOI

Agency funds 5-year effort to understand the potential for life in outer solar system and establishes a new Network for ...

Galaxy clusters caught in a first kiss

For the first time, astronomers have found two giant clusters of galaxies that are just about to collide. This observation ...

Carnegie Mellon physicist Rachel Mandelbaum named 2019 Simons Investigator

Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University physicist Rachel Mandelbaum has been named a 2019 Simons Investigator by the Simons ...

‘Bathtub rings’ around Titan’s lakes might be made of alien crystals