A common message in use to convey the seriousness of climate change to the public is: “Carbon dioxide levels are higher today than they have been for the past one million years!”
This new study by Brian Schubert (University of Louisiana at…
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A new concept of space exploration for understanding Sun and the inner heliosphere
With the development of science and technology, human’s activity was and is expanding from land, sea and sky to the space and other planets.
In the near future, deep space and other terrestrial planets will become the next main territory of…
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ESPRESSO confirms the presence of an Earth around the nearest star
The existence of a planet the size of Earth around the closest star in the solar system, Proxima Centauri, has been confirmed by an international team of scientists including researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE).
The results, which…
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‘Distance’ from the brightest stars is key to preserving primordial discs
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was used to conduct a three-year study of the crowded, massive and young star cluster Westerlund 2.
The research found that the material encircling stars near the cluster’s centre is mysteriously devoid of the…
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Astronomers predict bombardment from asteroids and comets in another planetary system
The planetary system around star HR8799 is remarkably similar to our Solar System.
A research team led by astronomers from the University of Groningen and SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research has used this similarity to model the delivery…
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Cosmic bursts unveil universe’s missing matter
Astronomers have used mysterious fast radio bursts to solve a decades-old mystery of ‘missing matter’, long predicted to exist in the Universe but never detected–until now.
The researchers have now found all of the missing ‘normal’…
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Under pressure, black holes feast
It has been known for some time that when distant galaxies –and the supermassive black holes within their cores — aggregate into clusters, these clusters create a volatile, highly pressurized environment.
Individual galaxies falling into…
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New clues to deep earthquake mystery
A new understanding of our planet’s deepest earthquakes could help unravel one of the most mysterious geophysical processes on Earth.
Deep earthquakes — those at least 300 kilometers below the surface — don’t typically cause damage, but…
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Yale finds a (much) earlier birth date for tectonic plates
Yale geophysicists reported that Earth’s ever-shifting, an underground network of tectonic plates was firmly in place more than 4 billion years ago — at least a billion years earlier than scientists generally thought.
Tectonic plates are large…
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Terrestrial bacteria can grow on nutrients from space
In the past decade, there has been renewed thinking about missions to the moon, perhaps even to Mars.
As inevitable fellow travellers on the bodies of astronauts, spaceships, or equipment, terrestrial microorganisms will undoubtedly come into…
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