Through 13 years of thermal infrared measurements from the Cassini spacecraft, the team analyzed how Titan's dense, hazy atmosphere tilts and drifts with the changing seasons.
The findings could help complement multi-billion-dollar expenses and decades of construction needed for research complexes like Europe's Large Hadron Collider, the largest and highest-energy particle accelerator in the world.
The other fundamental forces - electromagnetic, weak, and strong - have all been successfully described, but no complete and consistent quantum theory of gravity yet exists.
Traditional laser ion acceleration methods rely on high-energy, multi-joule laser systems to generate extreme ion speeds, typically requiring massive and complex setups.
Malena Rice, an assistant professor of astronomy at Yale, and her colleagues have shown that specific "edge-on" configurations of binary star systems may be particularly valuable for planet detection.
"Astronomers have long sought to understand how planets form within the swirling disks of gas and dust that encircle young stars," said Bayron Portilla-Revelo…
The new study, published in the Astrophysical Journal, predicts that Roman's wide-field infrared surveys will dramatically expand the known lens population, offering hundreds of ideal candidates for dark matter investigations.
Europa-UVS is one of nine scientific instruments aboard the Europa Clipper, including another SwRI-led instrument, the MAss Spectrometer for Planetary…
The dataset spans roughly 12 billion years, capturing light from some of the universe's earliest galaxies to those just one billion years old.
The study, led by researchers from Queen Mary University of London, focused on Photosystem I (PSI), a crucial protein complex that converts light into electrical energy.
"Sumatran orangutan mothers are not all the same when it comes to parenting behaviors," said Revathe Thillaikumar, a postdoctoral researcher at MPI-AB and first author of the study.
"We've known for some time that ovarian hormones, and particularly estradiol - a type of estrogen - have important consequences for neurons' structure and…
The study, published in the journal Science Advances, used decades-old Magellan data to identify possible signs of active tectonics at or below many of Venus' coronae.
The first study, published May 14 in Nature, introduced a sophisticated gravity model of the Moon that captures tiny variations in its gravitational field as it orbits Earth.
Research led by Dr. Elodie Freymann from the University of Oxford, published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, focused on two chimpanzee communities - Sonso and Waibira.
The study examined two nearly complete hand skeletons from South Africa, including the hand of Australopithecus sediba, discovered in 2010 at the Malapa site…
