Study Reveals How Saturn’s Magnetosphere Changes With the Seasons
Using data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, scientists from the University of Iowa have discovered how the magnetosphere around Saturn changes with the planet’s seasons, providing…
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Researchers Use Light to Manipulate a Quantum Bit
UC Santa Barbara researchers developed an all-optical scheme for controlling individual quantum bits in semiconductors using pulses of light, opening up new paths toward the…
Chandra Reveals an Enormous Cloud of Hot Gas Enveloping Two Colliding Galaxies
A burst of star formation that lasted for at least 200 million years may be responsible for a cloud of hot gas, which contains the…
Herschel Runs Out of Liquid Coolant, Stops Making Observations
Launched roughly four years ago, the Herschel space telescope has run out of liquid coolant and has stopped making observations. The Herschel observatory, a European…
Hubble Views Young Star PV Cep
This Hubble image shows the young star PV Cep, which is located in the northern constellation of Cepheus at a distance of over 1600 light-years…
New e-MERLIN Image of Betelgeuse Reveals Mysterious Hot Spots
A new e-MERLIN image of Betelgeuse reveals two hot spots that appear on the sides of the star with temperatures much higher than the average…
One of the Most Efficient Star Making Galaxies Ever Observed
Using Hubble, WISE and the IRAM Plateau de Bure interferometer in the French Alps, astronomers viewed efficient star-making galaxy SDSSJ1506+54, seeing a rare phase of…
Herschel Solves Mystery of Origin of Water in the Upper Atmosphere of Jupiter
Using the Herschel space observatory, researchers have solved the mystery as to the origin of water in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter, finding conclusive evidence…
Water Planets in the Habitable Zone: A Closer Look at Kepler 62e and 62f
In a new paper, astronomers explore the properties Kelper 62e and 62f, which are part of the five-planet system orbiting the star Kepler-62, suggesting that…
Kepler Mission Discovers Two New Planetary Systems With ‘Habitable Zone’ Planets
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered several new habitable-zone planets in two new planetary systems, Kepler-69 and Kepler-62. NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary…
Astronomers Discover Earliest Starburst Galaxy Ever Observed
A large team of astronomers has discovered the earliest starburst galaxy ever observed. Occurring just 880 million years after the Big Bang, HFLS3 is a…
Search for Dark Matter Reveals First Hint of WIMP
SuperCDMS researchers have for the first time observed a concrete hint of a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP), the particle physicists believe to be behind…
NASA’s Wind Mission Data Reveals ‘SLAMS’ Waves
A new study examines the data from NASA’s Wind spacecraft, which traveled through the foreshock region in front of Earth 17 times from 1998 –…
Researchers Assess the Surface of Europa for Materials Representing Ocean Composition
In a new study, researchers assessed the amount of sulfate hydrates (compared with relatively pristine water) in the surface ice in five widely distributed areas…
NASA Captures Image of an M6.5 Class Flare
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an image of an M6.5 class flare yesterday, April 11, 2013. The flare was also associated with an Earth-directed coronal…
World’s Oldest Dinosaur Bonebed Reveals How Dinosaur Embryos Grew and Developed
An international team of scientists excavated and analyzed over 200 bones from dinosaurs at different stages of embryonic development from a 190-million-year-old dinosaur bonebed, revealing…
Astronomers Discover Rain Falling From Saturn’s Rings
Using the W. M. Keck Observatory, researchers reveal the effects of charged water particles on Saturn’s upper atmosphere. NASA funded observations from the W. M….
Tin Nanocrystals Enable More Power to be Stored in Lithium Ion Batteries
In a newly published study, researchers from the Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry at ETH Zurich and Empa describe a new nanomaterial that enables more power…
