The discovery of diverse ices in the darkest regions of a cold molecular cloud measured to date has been announced by an international team of astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. This result allows astronomers ...
Astronomy
Jan 23, 2023
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Over the last 25 years, astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around stars in our galaxy, but more than 99% of them orbit smaller stars—from red dwarfs to stars slightly more massive than our sun, which is considered ...
Astronomy
Aug 12, 2022
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Researchers have identified the first signature of a magnetic field surrounding a planet outside of our solar system. Earth's magnetic field acts as a shield against energetic particles from the sun known as the solar wind. ...
Astronomy
Dec 21, 2021
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Planetary scientist Erdal Yiğit, with George Mason University, has published a Perspective piece in the journal Science suggesting that upper atmospheric interactions with solar wind cannot fully explain the loss of surface ...
Between 2.5 and 4 billion years ago, a time known as the Archean eon, Earth's weather could often be described as cloudy with a chance of asteroid.
Earth Sciences
Oct 21, 2021
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Using observations from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a trio of hot worlds larger than Earth orbiting a much younger version of our Sun called TOI ...
Astronomy
Feb 12, 2021
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Mars once had oceans but is now bone-dry, leaving many to wonder how the water was lost. University of Arizona researchers have discovered a surprisingly large amount of water in the upper atmosphere of Mars, where it is ...
Astronomy
Nov 12, 2020
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With its dazzling system of icy rings, Saturn has been a subject of fascination since ancient times. Even now the sixth planet from the sun holds many mysteries, partly because its distance away makes direct observation difficult ...
Astronomy
Oct 7, 2020
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Scientists have developed a new method for detecting oxygen in exoplanet atmospheres that may accelerate the search for life.
Astronomy
Jan 6, 2020
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New research from astronomers at the University of Washington uses the intriguing TRAPPIST-1 planetary system as a kind of laboratory to model not the planets themselves, but how the coming James Webb Space Telescope might ...
Astronomy
Aug 14, 2019
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