Lightning bolts on Jupiter are up to 100 times stronger than Earth’s
On Jupiter, a storm doesn’t just brew, it can simmer for centuries. The planet’s atmosphere is a perpetual…
Distance in space is an illusion
Andromeda sounds far away because 2.5 million light-years sounds far away. It lands with authority. It feels exact.…
Webb Telescope Detects Unusually High Levels of “Heavy Hydrogen,” a Key Component of Nuclear Fusion Fuel, in 3I/ATLAS
New observations of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have revealed an all-new twist…
Galway student leads team to discovery of new planet · TheJournal.ie
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Scientists are rethinking how young galaxies formed their magnetic fields
Magnetic fields that stretch across thousands of light-years should take a very long time to organize. Standard dynamo…
New moons have been discovered orbiting Jupiter and Saturn
ⓘ Placidplace – Pixabay An artist’s illustration showing Saturn’s rings and several moons. Astronomers have discovered new moons…
Northern Lights to be visible over parts of UK this evening
Aurora displays occur when charged particles collide with gases in the Earth’s atmosphere around the magnetic poles Colourful…
As SpaceX Launches its 10,000th Satellite, A Photographer Captures the Impact on the Night Sky
‘Swamped Skies’ by Joshua Rozells. This week SpaceX passed an eye-watering milestone: it launched its 10,000th satellite into…
Volatile-rich evolution of molten super-Earth L 98-59 d
Lichtenberg, T. & Miguel, Y. in Treatise on Geochemistry 3rd edn., Vol. 7 (eds Anbar, A. & Weis,…
Enrichment by the first stars in a relic dwarf galaxy
Flaugher, B. et al. The dark energy camera. Astron. J. 150, 150 (2015). Article ADS Google Scholar Beers,…
A complete set of canonical nucleobases in the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu
Extraction and purification of organic molecules from samples The Ryugu A0480 (11.9 mg) and C0370 (8.3 mg) aggregate samples were…
Satellite launches and burn-ups are altering Earth’s atmosphere and damaging the ozone layer
The number of satellites launched into space has grown dramatically in recent years. Mega-constellations, large networks of satellites…