2+ day, 15+ hour ago  (255+ words) The parent bodies of different meteorites may have formed in the same region of the Solar System, as indicated by new computer simulations image: Just outside Jupiter's orbit, a ring-shaped region of high gas pressure formed. In this "dust trap,…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago  (71+ words) Artistic representation of WASP-94 A b, a gas giant in the Microscopium constellation. Clouds build as air flows over the dark side of the planet, reaching a large swell by daybreak. The clouds dissipate on the dayside, leaving clear skies…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago  (374+ words) A team from Vienna and Frankfurt has found a formula describing a strange phenomenon: space and time can form a kind of "crystal" that may turn into a black hole image: Left: visualization of a spacetime-crystel. Right: a cubic crystal…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago  (203+ words) Astronomers use NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to determine composition of the atmosphere of a distant, temperate gas giant planet for the first time image: Artist's impression of a gas giant planet orbiting its distant host star. New research, led…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago  (79+ words) Gas giant (IMAGE) Eurek Alert! Artist's impression of a gas giant planet orbiting its distant host star. New research, led by astronomers at Penn State and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to analyze the atmosphere…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago  (1383+ words) Artemis II's safe return was a team effort on a massive scale " and three Aggie engineers were among the many who made it possible image: Texas A&M University graduates turned NASA engineers Jeff Fox '84, Katherine Plaza '22 and Cody Kelly…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago  (500+ words) Faint red auroras seen over Japan could be hiding space storms that are stronger than previously thought image: Low-latitude aurora observed on 28 June 2024 in Yoichi, Hokkaido, Japan. view more Credit: Tomohiro M. Nakayama In a new study published in the Journal…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago  (34+ words) (IMAGE) Eurek Alert! UCR mechanical engineer Mona Eskandari speaking at an invited seminar; Caltech, Pasadena, CA. More on this News Release What we now know about how smoking stiffens lungs...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago  (536+ words) A study rewrites the history of the Milky Way and reveals how galaxy collisions can destroy stellar discs image: A frame from the Auriga simulations, which study galaxies similar to the Milky Way. view more Credit: Matthew Orkney and Chervin…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago  (31+ words) A galactic collision ignited stellar fireworks in the Milky Way (IMAGE) Eurek Alert! A frame from the Auriga simulations, which study galaxies similar to the Milky Way. Matthew Orkney and Chervin Laporte...