Current instruments can directly image massive planets and brown dwarfs around only about 1% of stars, even in young systems where newly formed companions still emit residual heat and appear brighter than older objects.
A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder used NASAs James Webb Space Telescope together with detailed computer simulations to study how these flares…
The team found that Tersicoccus phoenicis can depress its metabolism so strongly that standard methods for detecting living cells register it as inactive even after conditions improve.
In the solar system, objects between about a kilometer and a few hundred kilometers across occupy distinct populations such as asteroids and comets, which are thought to be leftover planetesimals from the era of planet formation.
Neutrinos, sometimes called ghost particles, rarely interact with matter even though trillions pass through every person each second, and they are produced in nuclear reactions such as those in the Sun's core.
The TRAPPIST-1 system, discovered by the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope project, lies about 39 to 40 light-years from Earth and consists…
Voyager 2 remains the only spacecraft to have flown past Uranus, and its instruments detected a trapped electron population at energy levels that exceeded extrapolations from other planetary magnetospheres.
In work now reported in Nature, the KATRIN collaboration has carried out a direct search for such sterile neutrinos by examining the beta decay of tritium.
The team, led by researchers at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences with support from Cardiff University, studied…
The finding, led by University of Arizona Steward Observatory postdoctoral researcher Thomas Stuber and published in the Astronomical Journal, is the…
From 2013 to 2019, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) used DECam on the 4-meter Blanco Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile to measure the…
Sarsenbayev focuses on one of the primary problems related to HLW: decay heat released by radioactive waste.
An international team led by Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences and Rhodes University has now quantified how these living structures absorb carbon and convert it into calcium carbonate.
A study published in the journal Biochar examined how autotrophic microbes that use the Calvin cycle to fix carbon dioxide respond to biochar in flooded rice paddies and well aerated upland croplands in China.
Cosmic filaments form the main framework of the cosmic web, consisting of long, thread-like arrangements of galaxies and dark matter that channel material across intergalactic space.
Chorus emissions are plasma waves generated when magnetospheric electrons interact resonantly with electromagnetic waves, producing characteristic rising and falling tones in the audible frequency range often described as birdsong.
