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The white edges along these gullies in Mars’ Terra Sirenum are believed to be dusty water ice. Khuller et al. think meltwater could form beneath the surface of this kind of ice, providing a place for possible photosynthesis. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona.

Meltwater beneath Martian Ice Could Support Microbial Life, Researchers Suggest

Oct 17, 2024 by News Staff

On Earth, solar radiation can transmit down to multiple meters within ice, depending on its optical properties. Organisms within ice can harness energy...

Close up of Quaestio simpsonorum footprint. Image credit: Evans et al., doi: 10.1111/ede.12491.

New Species of Complex Ediacaran Animal Discovered in Australia

Oct 17, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Quaestio simpsonorum is part of the Ediacara Biota, which preserves the oldest evidence for complex, macroscopic animals. Close up of Quaestio simpsonorum...

This artwork highlights a pair of brown dwarfs, named Gliese 229 Ba and Gliese 229 Bb. Image credit: K. Miller / R. Hurt / Caltech / IPAC.

Gliese 229B is Actually Compact Pair of Brown Dwarfs, Astronomers Find

Oct 17, 2024 by News Staff

Gliese 229B was the first known brown dwarf, discovered in 1995. In new research, astronomers observed Gliese 229 B with the GRAVITY interferometer...

This is an artist's impression of an asteroid breaking up. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

Most of Earth’s Meteorites Came from Few Asteroid Breakup Events, Research Suggests

Oct 16, 2024 by News Staff

New research shows that approximately 70% of meteorites originate from at least three recent break-ups of massive asteroids. This is an artist’s...

This artist’s impression shows the view from the surface of one of the exoplanets in the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system. Image credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser / Spaceengine.org.

Allen Telescope Array Searches for Radio Technosignatures from TRAPPIST-1 System

Oct 16, 2024 by News Staff

The TRAPPIST-1 system is a compact system of at least seven exoplanets with sizes similar to Earth. Penn State and SETI Institute astronomers spent 28...

Two stars in the R Aquarii binary system are separated by about 1.6 billion miles. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Matthias Stute / Margarita Karovska / Davide De Martin / Mahdi Zamani / N. Bartmann, ESA & Hubble.

Hubble Observes Binary System R Aquarii

Oct 16, 2024 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have made a unique timelapse of R Aquarii’s dynamic behavior from observations spanning from 2014...

(3122) Florence will pass safely by Earth on September 1, at a distance of about 4.4 million miles. Image credit: University of Colorado.

Earth’s New Mini-Moon is Sign of Tremendous Potential for Space Mining, Scientists Say

Oct 16, 2024 by News Staff

2024 PT5, a new mini-moon of our planet, arrived in Earth’s orbit on September 29, 2024. 2024 PT5 will experience a temporarily captured flyby in...

This mosaic made by ESA’s Euclid space telescope contains 260 observations collected in 2024. Image credit: ESA / Euclid / Euclid Consortium / NASA / CEA Paris-Saclay / J.-C. Cuillandre / E. Bertin / G. Anselmi.

ESA’s Euclid Mission Releases First Piece of Its 3D Map of Universe

Oct 16, 2024 by News Staff

ESA astronomers have released a 208-gigapixel mosaic of images taken by Euclid, a mission launched in 2023 to study why the Universe is expanding at an...

The brown longnose skate (Leucoraja longirostris), adult male holotype in total dorsal view. Scale bar - 5 cm. Image credit: Weigmann et al., doi: 10.3390/biology13060405.

Marine Biologists Discover Remarkable New Species of Deep-Water Skate

Oct 15, 2024 by Natali Anderson

Marine biologists have identified a new species of the skate genus Leucoraja lurking in the depths of the Southwestern Indian Ocean. The brown longnose...

Boophis picardi, a male paratype from An’Ala, Madagascar. Image credit: Vences et al., doi: 10.3897/vz.74.e121110.

Seven New Species of ‘Star Trek’ Treefrogs Found in Madagascar

Oct 15, 2024 by News Staff

In reference to the otherworldly sounds by which these treefrogs of the genus Boophis fill Malagasy rainforests, some of them reminiscent of sounds of...

This VST image shows the nebula Gum 39. Image credit: ESO / VPHAS+ Survey.

VST Sees Newborn Stars in Gum 39

Oct 15, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Gum 39 is one of several nebulae in a vast stellar nursery called the Running Chicken Nebula (IC 2944), which is located about 6,500 light-years away in...

Seafloor surface and crustal subseafloor vents at Fava Flow Suburbs, the East Pacific Rise. Image credit: Bright et al., doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-52631-9.

Researchers Discover Animal Life in Subseafloor Crust at Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents

Oct 15, 2024 by News Staff

Marine biologists have found adult tubeworms and other vent animals below the seafloor in the East Pacific Rise, a volcanically active, fast-spreading...

This image, taken by the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) on October 10, 2024, shows comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS and its bright tail streaming from the upper left to the right; Mercury appears as a bright dot on the left. Image credit: ESA / NASA.

NASA Astronauts, SOHO Spacecraft Snap New Images of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS

Oct 15, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A bright comet from the Oort cloud named C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) is passing by Earth and will be visible through the second half of October 2024. This...

Europa Clipper lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:06 p.m. EDT on October 14, 2024. Image credit: NASA / Kim Shiflett.

NASA’s Europa Clipper Spacecraft Launches to Jupiter’s Icy Moon

Oct 14, 2024 by News Staff

Europa Clipper lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:06 p.m. EDT on October 14, 2024 to begin a six-year journey to Jupiter’s...

Simon et al. measured the Great Red Spot’s size, shape, brightness, color, and vorticity over one full oscillation cycle. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Amy Simon, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center / Joseph DePasquale, STScI.

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is Wobbling and Fluctuating in Size, Hubble Observations Show

Oct 14, 2024 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observed Jupiter’s most distinctive feature, the Great Red Spot, with on eight dates over a single,...

This artist’s concept depicts a potential volcanic exomoon between WASP-49Ab (left) and its parent star. Image credit: NASA / JPL / Caltech.

Astronomers Find New Evidence for Volcanic Exomoon around WASP-49Ab

Oct 14, 2024 by News Staff

Using the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the HARPS instrument at ESO’s La Silla 3.6-m telescope, astronomers have detected a...

This Hubble image shows Messier 90, an intermediate spiral galaxy located 53.8 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / D. Thilker / J. Lee / PHANGS-HST Team.

Hubble Captures Stunning New Image of Messier 90

Oct 14, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of the intermediate spiral galaxy Messier 90. This Hubble image...

A pair of Platypterigius sp. Image credit: Dmitry Bogdanov / CC BY 3.0.

New Species of Ichthyosaur Identified from Colombian Fossils

Oct 11, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists say they’ve identified a new species of marine reptile in the ophthalmosaurid genus Platypterygius that lived approximately 125 million...

The region of the nuclear chart 87≤Z≤97 and 112≤N≤136 shows the new isotope plutonium-227 (red star) and the 12 nuclides (blue star) that were discovered at the Institute of Modern Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Image credit: Huabin Yang.

Physicists Synthesize New Isotope of Plutonium

Oct 11, 2024 by News Staff

The newly-discovered isotope, plutonium-227, has a half-life of 0.78 seconds, according to a team of physicists from China. The region of the nuclear chart...