Search results for constituent of natural gas

Analytical Chemistry Mar 26, 2024

Researchers harness the sun to produce hydrogen gas from water

A team of chemistry researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has developed a unique approach to harnessing the sun's energy to produce hydrogen gas, a potential clean energy source, from water, according ...

Planetary Sciences Mar 9, 2024

Jupiter's moon Europa produces less oxygen than we thought—it may affect our chances of finding life there

Jupiter's icy moon Europa has long been thought of as one of the most habitable worlds in the Solar System. Now the Juno mission to Jupiter has directly sampled its atmosphere in detail for the first time. The results, published ...

Astronomy Jan 24, 2024

Thirsty? Water is more common than you think

Water is abundant throughout the entire universe. What water has going for it is that its constituents, hydrogen and oxygen, are also ridiculously common, and those two elements really enjoy bonding with each other. Oxygen ...

Environment Dec 4, 2023

Exxon among 50 oil producers in controversial climate pact at COP28

Exxon Mobil Corp. and Saudi Arabia's Aramco, the world's largest private and state-sector oil companies, led a pledge by 50 oil and gas producers at the COP28 climate summit to cut emissions from their own operations.

Planetary Sciences Nov 15, 2023

JWST detects water vapor, sulfur dioxide and sand clouds in the atmosphere of a nearby exoplanet

A team of European astronomers, co-led by researchers from the Institute of Astronomy, KU Leuven, used recent observations made with the James Webb Space Telescope to study the atmosphere of the nearby exoplanet WASP-107b. ...

Astronomy Nov 9, 2023

Glow in the visible range detected for the first time in the Martian night

A scientific team led by researchers from the Laboratory for Planetary and Atmospheric Physics (LPAP) at the University of Liège (BE) has just observed, for the first time, lights in the night sky over Mars using the UVIS-NOMAD ...

Analytical Chemistry Nov 7, 2023

How lab-made catalysts can help convert difficult greenhouse gases

Natural gas consists of light hydrocarbons such as methane and ethane. Such gases are more potent greenhouse gases than CO2, are constantly released into the atmosphere from natural gas wells, and are more difficult to store ...

Astronomy Oct 26, 2023

Astronomers want JWST to study the Milky Way core for hundreds of hours

To understand the universe, we need to understand the extreme processes that shape it and drive its evolution. Things like supermassive black holes (SMBHs,) supernovae, massive reservoirs of dense gas, and crowds of stars ...

Astrobiology Sep 16, 2023

Possible hints of life found on distant planet. How excited should we be?

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has shown that an exoplanet around a star in the constellation Leo has some of the chemical markers that, on Earth, are associated with living organisms. But these are vague ...

Planetary Sciences Jul 24, 2023

JWST observations find water for the first time in the inner disk around a young star with giant planets

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, the MPIA-led MINDS research collaboration discovered water in the inner region of a disk of gas and dust around the young star PDS 70. Astronomers expect terrestrial planets to be forming ...

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