Guest post: How declining cloudiness is accelerating global warming
For the past two decades, low-level cloud cover has been declining, increasing the amount of sunlight absorbed by…
Organosulfur Chemistry On sub-Neptunes: Implications For Hazes And Biosignatures
The network of important reactions for the carbon, sulfur, and coupled organosulfur chemistry in the atmosphere of K2-18b.…
Proton Irradiation of Primitive Atmospheres of Young Exoplanets And Early Earth: N2O Greenhouse Warming And Prebiotic Synthesis
The figure shows the HPLC Chromatograms of Amino Acids produced in the Sample B5 irradiation run. — astro-ph.EP…
A New Spin On Planet Formation
A New Window into Planet Formation — Keck Observatory Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea,…
In 1961 An Artificial Ionosphere Was Put Around The Earth Using Tiny Copper Needles In Order To Facilitate Critical Communication For The US Military » TwistedSifter
Shutterstock Communication today is pretty amazing. You can be almost anywhere on the planet and communicate globally using…
Meteorite hunters from states away find fragments in Northeast Ohio
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – Meteorite hunters from states away are heading to Northeast Ohio to find fragments of…
Oxygenated False Positive Biosignatures in Mars-like Exoplanet Atmospheres
Mars-like Exoplanet — Grok via Astrobiology.com Oxygen is a well-studied biosignature. Studying potential abiotic pathways for O2 build-up…
Mantle Convection And Nightside Volcanism On Lava World K2-141 b
Snapshots of mantle temperature and melt fraction (top row) and basalt fraction (bottom row) at 6.5 Gyr for…
New space race could turn our atmosphere into ‘crematorium for satellites’ – The Conversation
When we look up at the night sky and see a satellite glide past, we might not consider…
Webb Detects Hydrogen Sulfide Gas on Three Super-Jupiters
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have for the first time identified hydrogen sulfide gas in…
Researchers find Jupiter holds 1.5x more oxygen than the Sun
Thick, swirling clouds cover Jupiter from pole to pole. They hold water like Earth’s clouds, but at far…
Tectonic Plate Movements, Not Volcanoes, Drove Major Climate Shifts Over 540 Million Years
New research challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating that mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts, not volcanic eruptions, played the…