Laughing gas N2O could help search for life on exoplanets
Scientists at UC Riverside are suggesting something is missing from the typical roster of chemicals that astrobiologists use to search for life on planets...
Rover findings offer glimpse of ancient landscape on Mars
CU Boulder geologist Lisa Mayhew is among the scientists working to recreate the history of an ancient landscape that wouldn’t look out of place...
Vredefort crater asteroid was bigger than one that killed off dinosaurs
The impactor that formed the Vredefort crater, Earth’s largest, about two billion years ago, was probably much bigger than previously believed—and would have had...
Scientists develop novel transistors to explore Jupiter’s Europa
Europa is more than just one of Jupiter’s many moons – it’s also one of most promising places in the solar system to look...
Scientists discover Milky Way galaxy’s graveyard of dead stars
In the first map of the 'galactic underworld', a new study has revealed a graveyard that stretches three times the height of the Milky...
Scientists find first traces of the universe’s earliest stars
Astronomers may have discovered the ancient chemical remains of the first stars to light up the Universe.
Using an innovative analysis of a distant quasar...
Scientists discover moon asteroid impacts mirrored on Earth
Scientists have found asteroid impacts on the Moon millions of years ago coincided precisely with some of the largest meteorite impacts on Earth, such...
Synthetic lava in the lab could help explore exoplanets
The exploration era for the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is getting hot – volcanically hot.
A multidisciplinary group of Cornell researchers has modeled...
How NASA deflected an asteroid successfully for the first time
“And we have impact.”
With that phrase, uttered amid the cheers of NASA scientists and engineers Monday evening, the agency’s so-called Double Asteroid Redirection Test,...
Astronomers map distances to 56000 galaxies, largest-ever catalog
How old is our universe, and what is its size?
A team of researchers led by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa astronomers Brent Tully...