An artist’s rendering of the early solar system, featuring the proto-Sun, newly forming planets, and circumstellar disk. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC) Billions of years ago, when the Sun wa… [+3203 chars]
The sounds of sloshing lava are music to a volcanologist's ears. The reverberating belches and burps can help reveal what's going on deep within a volcano's belly. Putting an ear to the Klauea volca… [+3606 chars]
Widely believed by astronomers, the principle of mediocrity states that the properties and evolution of the solar system are not unusual in any important way. New research from CU Boulder- led by CU … [+3033 chars]
The lightning protection system at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39B recently intercepted the most powerful lightning strike ever recorded at the spaceport. When this event occurred, the age… [+1739 chars]
NASA has announced the date when the first full-color images from the new James Webb Space Telescope will be released. Along with ESA (European Space Agency), the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and the… [+2360 chars]
A team of astronomers in Japan, for the first time, discovered a faint radio emission covering a giant galaxy as a result of achieving high imaging dynamic range. Radio emission is emitted by the gas… [+2830 chars]
An artist’s rendering of the early solar system, featuring the proto-Sun, newly forming planets, and circumstellar disk. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC) Billions of years ago, when the Sun wa… [+3203 chars]
Scientists have discovered that an ultra-reactive chemical in Earth’s atmosphere lasts much longer than we previously believed. In fact, they believe that millions of tons of the chemical could linge… [+2534 chars]
This guest post was written by Elena Asencio, a first year PhD student at the University of Bonn. Elena works on testing and comparing different cosmological models at galaxy and galaxy cluster scale… [+6171 chars]
At long last: the crystal structure of three layers of -graphyne. (Courtesy: Yiming Hu) Two new processes for producing different types of graphyne a 2D allotrope of carbon that includes triple bond… [+6674 chars]
