Planets/Moons

The results were published on 1st April 2020 Two of them are in the category "Research in accordance with the orders of the President of Russia": Ayrat Kayumov, "New approaches to reducing the resistance of microorganisms to antibiotics…

Research answers question on how some magmatic rocks contain random proportions of minerals than what is expected for rocks of their type.Credit: Wits University Researchers at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa,…

Bacteria live in tiny clay-filled cracks in solid rock millions of years oldCredit: Caitlin Devor, University of Tokyo, CC BY 4.0 Newly discovered single-celled creatures living deep beneath the seafloor have given…

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded the Cologne-based geophysicist Professor Dr Joachim Saur with the ERC Advanced Grant. Saur will receive a total of 2.1 million euros in funding. The ERC Advanced Grant is considered the most…

Bacteria on nanowires convert sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to organic building blocksCredit: UC Berkeley photo by Peidong Yang If humans ever hope to colonize Mars, the settlers will need to manufacture on-planet a huge…

University of Arizona researchers probed Martian meteorites to reconstruct Mars' chaotic history. Their findings suggest that Mars might not have had a global magma ocean. In Jessica Barnes' palm is an ancient, coin-sized mosaic of glass,…

Credit: ESA, Foster and Partners The modules that the major space agencies plan to erect on the Moon could incorporate an element contributed by the human colonizers themselves: the urea in their pee. European researchers…

ITHACA, N.Y. - Cornell University astronomers have created five models representing key points from our planet's evolution, like chemical snapshots through Earth's own geologic epochs. The models will be spectral templates for…

Model developed by Brazilian researchers shows chaotic phase that placed objects in current orbits beginning within first 100 million years after formation of giant planets The hypothesis that the Solar System was born from a gigantic…

Credit: Image courtesy of Opher, et. al The heliosphere is a vast region, extending more than twice as far as Pluto. It casts a magnetic "force field" around all the planets, deflecting charged particles that would otherwise muscle into…

Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found striking orbital geometries in protoplanetary disks around binary stars. While disks orbiting the most compact binary star systems…

Scripps Oceanography researcher's assertion bolstered by series of new studies New research lends credence to an unorthodox retelling of the story of early Earth first proposed by a geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC…

Credit: NASA / Georgia Tech / Guberman / Brumfield It is already hard to believe that there is ice on Mercury, where daytime temperatures reach 400 degrees Celsius, or 750 degrees Fahrenheit. Now an upcoming study says that the Vulcan…

Credit: Credits: ESO/M. Kornmesser This exoplanet, 390 light years away towards the constellation Pisces, has days when its surface temperatures exceed 2,400 Celsius, sufficiently hot to evaporate metals. Its nights, with strong winds,…

Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Researchers using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have observed an extreme planet where they suspect it rains iron. The ultra-hot giant exoplanet has a day side where temperatures climb above 2400 degrees…

Credit: UNM Stock Photo Scientists at The University of New Mexico have found that the Earth and Moon have distinct oxygen compositions and are not identical in oxygen as previously thought according to a new study released today in Nature…

Beer stein-shaped distant relative of modern clams captured snapshots of hot days in the late Cretaceous WASHINGTON--Earth turned faster at the end of the time of the dinosaurs than it does today, rotating 372 times a year, compared to the…

Credit: Nagoya University Numerical simulations showed that the temperature gradient in the disk of gas around a young gas giant planet could play a critical role in the development of a satellite system dominated by a single large moon,…

Researchers find evidence of a cosmic impact that caused destruction of one of the world's earliest human settlements Before the Taqba Dam impounded the Euphrates River in northern Syria in the 1970s, an archaeological site named Abu…

NASA funding will support UArizona teams working on ways to harvest water and produce crops in space.Credit: NASA Many things change for astronauts when they leave Earth and head into space, but at least one remains the same: They need…