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Space weather can dramatically alter a planet's fate

We tend to think of habitability in terms of individual planets and their potential to host life. But barring outliers like rogue planets with internal heating or icy moons with subsurface oceans created by tidal heating, ...

Two exoplanets discovered orbiting sun-like star

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of two new exoplanets, a few times more massive than Earth, orbiting a sun-like star known as HD 35843. The finding was reported in a research paper published May ...

Proposed experiment could clarify origin of Martian methane

Over the past decade, the Curiosity rover has repeatedly detected methane on the surface of Mars. This gas is often produced by microbes, so it could herald the presence of life on the red planet. But skeptics have postulated ...

Webb reveals new details and mysteries in Jupiter's aurora

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured new details of the auroras on our solar system's largest planet. The dancing lights observed on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth. With ...

Astrophysicist searches for gravitational waves in new way

University of Colorado Boulder astrophysicist Jeremy Darling is pursuing a new way of measuring the universe's gravitational wave background—the constant flow of waves that churn through the cosmos, warping the very fabric ...

NASA's Europa Clipper captures Mars in infrared

On its recent swing by Mars, NASA's Europa Clipper took the opportunity to capture infrared images of the Red Planet. The data will help mission scientists calibrate the spacecraft's thermal imaging instrument so they can ...

Glass beads offer a window into the moon's hidden depths

An international study featuring scientists from Curtin University's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Space Science and Technology Center offers new insights into the moon's history and provides a better understanding ...

Hubble comes face-to-face with spiral's arms

The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image that incorporates six different wavelengths of light. NGC 3596 is situated 90 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo, ...

There are many ways to interpret the atmosphere of K2-18b

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. That truism, now known as the "Sagan standard" after science communicator Carl Sagan, has been around in some form since David Hume first published it in the 1740s. But, ...

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