How Earth Climate Models Can Help Scientists Search for Life on Other Planets
In a generic brick building on the northwestern edge of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center … more
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10 Things Spitzer Taught Us About Our Solar System
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, designed to reveal the far, cold and dusty side of the … more
Behind howls of solar wind, quiet chirps reveal its origin
here’s a wind that emanates from the sun, and it blows not like a soft … more
Goldilocks Stars Are Best Places to Look for Life
In the search for life beyond Earth, astronomers look for planets in a star’s “habitable … more
‘Cold Neptune’ and two temperate super-Earths found orbiting nearby stars
A “cold Neptune” and two potentially habitable worlds are part of a cache of five … more
LIGO-Virgo network catches another neutron star collision
A new study confirms that the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO) near Livingston, Louisiana … more
NASA Maps Ground Changes From Puerto Rico Quake
Days after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake rocked Puerto Rico, followed by hundreds of aftershocks, the full … more
Supercomputer Simulations Showcase Novel Planet Formation Models
Most of us are taught in grade school how planets formed: dust particles clump together … more
Scientists find evidence Venus may have active volcanoes
A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa planetary scientist co-authored a study published this week in Science Advances that shows lava flows on … more
Interconnected stellar nurseries form the largest gaseous structure ever observed in Milky Way
Astronomers at Harvard University have discovered a monolithic, wave-shaped gaseous structure — the largest ever … more
Planet WASP-12b is on a death spiral, say scientists
Earth is doomed — but not for 5 billion years. Our planet will be roasted … more
