Recent research has uncovered surprising characteristics of galaxies formed 2 to 3 billion years after the Big Bang. Utilizing the JWST, they examined 33 ancient…
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Scientists have developed a groundbreaking AI-based method to detect signs of life on other planets. This method, with 90% accuracy, distinguishes between biological and abiotic…
Artist’s conception of a large gas giant planet orbiting a small red dwarf star called TOI-5205. Credit: Image by Katherine Cain, courtesy of the Carnegie…
Tissint meteorite. Credit: Kurt Kracher, Natural History Museum Vienna Tissint, a Martian meteorite that plummeted to Earth and crash-landed in Morocco over 11 years ago,…
Isotope Analysis of Primitive Meteorites Reveals Solar System Formed From “Poorly Mixed Cake Batter”
A meteorite thin section under a microscope. Different colors represent different minerals, because light travels through them in different ways. The round mineral aggregates are…
A newly completed 15-year study details the origins and diversity of every known mineral on Earth. An innovative new perspective on mineralogy, findings rank amongst…
Artist’s concept of this research that probes the odds of a new species being acquired by a microbiome ecosystem. Credit: Navid Marvi, courtesy of the…
In a case of cosmic mistaken identity, an international team of astronomers revealed that what they once thought was a supernova is actually periodic flaring…
Researchers use multi-anvil press to turn fullerene C60 into diamond glass, similar to the process of converting graphite to diamond in high-pressure apparatus. Credit: Image…
Image of Neptune taken by NASA’s Voyager 2 mission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Probing the structures and properties of superionic ice. A layer of “hot,” electrically conductive…
An artist’s conception of the newly discovered asteroid 2021 PH27, which has the shortest known orbital period for an asteroid and second shortest for any…
An artist’s impression of a flare from Proxima Centauri, modeled after the loops of glowing hot gas seen in the largest solar flares. An artist’s…
This cartoon shows a subducting oceanic plate traveling like a conveyor belt from the surface down to the lower mantle. The white arrows show the…
An illustration showing how a combination of static high-pressure synthesis techniques and dynamic methods enabled the researchers to probe the magnesium silicate bridgmanite, believed to…
An artist’s conception of the most-distant known astrophysical object — GN-z11, a galaxy 13.4 billion light-years from Earth — depicted with a gamma-ray burst like…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s fifth generation made its first observations earlier this month. This image shows a sampling of data from those first SDSS-V…
New work led by Carnegie’s Matt Clement reveals the likely original locations of Saturn and Jupiter. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Where were Jupiter and Saturn…
The universe’s first structure originated when some of the material flung outward by the Big Bang overcame its trajectory and collapsed on itself, forming clumps.…
An artist’s conception of Piro and Vissapragada’s model of a ringed planet transiting in front of its host star. They used these models to constrain…
An artist’s concept of GJ180d, which is the nearest temperate super-Earth to us that is not tidally locked to its star, making it more likely…