Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, scientists may have identified atmospheric gases on 55 Cancri e, an ultra-hot rocky exoplanet. The discovery may represent the clearest evidence of an atmosphere …
UC Irvine chemistry professors Dmitry Fishman (right) and Eric Potema have made groundbreaking discoveries about the way light interacts with solid matter in silicon. Their work may improve the efficiency …
Using NASA’s Chandra Supermassive black holes. The newly discovered vents are associated with chimney-like structures at right angles to the Milky Way’s disk. Chandra observations reveal how the “tunnel” at …
Scientists have discovered a rocky exoplanet that may have an atmosphere that they believe may have emerged from a magma ocean on a distant world. Krispy Kreme’s first season shoot …
Signals from six new galaxies discovered by FAST (black line) and confirmed by optical telescopes (cyan line).Image source: National Olympic Committee Astronomers have discovered a large number of gas-rich galaxies …
A blazing exoplanet discovered billions of miles away is dotted with so many volcanoes that it visibly glows in the darkness of space. According to a new paper published in …
Artist’s rendition of Lokipatra, the lava lake on Jupiter’s moon Io.Image source: NASA NASA’s Juno spacecraft came within 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) of the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io during …
The SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 has the troubling ability to frequently mutate itself. Other viruses mutate, but as SARS-CoV-2 spread rapidly throughout humanity during the pandemic, killing millions, the …
The animation is an artistic concept of Loki Patera, a lava lake on Jupiter’s moon Io, created using data from the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft. There are multiple …
Huge clusters of galaxies distort space-time to the point where they act like lenses. The light from more distant galaxies is distorted and amplified, giving astronomers the chance to see …