Data Shows Evidence of Molecular Absorption in a Hot Neptune’s Atmosphere
A rare hot Neptune exoplanet was recently discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), and a team of international scientists just studied the spectrum…
Astronomy
The Milky Way may be Teeming With Planets Like Earth that have Oceans and Continents
Astronomers have long searched the vast universe for evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations. But liquid water is a must for life to exist on a planet.…
A Significant Advance in the Search for Life is Presented by the New Class of Habitable Exoplanets
Astronomers have discovered a new type of exoplanets that are substantially different from our own but may harbor life, which might hasten the search for…
Microbes may have Swarmed Ancient Mars Underground
According to French scientists, ancient Mars may have had an environment capable of supporting an underground world teeming with microscopic organisms. The researchers concluded that…
Giant Planets May Become “Maturity” Much Earlier Than Once Believed, Study Finds
Researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), along with scientists from other institutions in Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, the United Kingdom, and Mexico, have…
Private SpaceX Mission Could Assist NASA in Extending Hubble for Many More Years
Elon Musk’s SpaceX and NASA are working together to determine whether it would be possible to use SpaceX to move the Hubble observatory into a…
The Heat Shield Modeling Gaps Found in Galileo’s Jupiter Entry Probe
In 1995, the Galileo mission’s entry probe burst into the atmosphere of Jupiter in a blazing fashion. The probe transmitted information regarding the burning of…
Laughing Gas Discovered in Space could be the Beginning of Life
Scientists at UC Riverside are suggesting something is missing from the typical roster of chemicals that astrobiologists use to search for life on planets around…
Spin Flips Depict the formation of Galaxies from the Cosmic Web
The alignment between galaxy spins and the large-scale structure of the universe reveals the processes by which different components of galaxies form. The large-scale structure…
Debris from the Asteroid impact Extend over 6,000 Kilometers
A new image captured by a Chilean telescope appears to be a dazzling comet streaking across the night sky, followed by a long, glowing tail.…
Hubble Discovers a Magnificent Spiral Galaxy
The stately sweeping spiral arms of the spiral galaxy NGC 5495 are revealed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 in this…
At High Energies, Cosmic Ray Protons Show New Spectral Structures
Cosmic rays constitute high-energy protons and atomic nuclei that originate from stars (both within our galaxy and from other galaxies) and are accelerated by supernovae…
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