
Our Icy Planetary Relatives: Special Slushies?
The author’s of today’s paper found that planets are made of unappetizing slushies!
The author’s of today’s paper found that planets are made of unappetizing slushies!
Dust devils, also known as dusty vortices, are key to understanding Mars’ climate since they loft dust into the atmosphere, shaping the Martian environment. Today’s author discusses some dust devil data gathered by the Mars Environmental Dynamic Analyzer on the Perseverance rover.
Scientists have found a new condition in which life can travel through space! Read more…
Astronomers have a challenging task ahead of them — to find young exoplanets in protoplanetary disks. Machine Learning could potentially come to the rescue.
Guest author Neha Krishnakumar describes how the sun can have life-changing effects on one of the most unlikely parts of Earth: whales. The effects of solar storms are thought to increase the number of whale strandings that occur each year.
Over the last few years, we have been publishing Astrobites that students wrote for their courses. This is how those bites came to be!