by Kerrin Hensley | Mar 1, 2017 | Daily Paper Summaries
Bright surface features ring Titan’s north polar lakes and trace out dry lake beds. Could these same features in the equatorial desert regions indicate that what is now desert was once covered in liquid?
by Elisabeth Matthews | Feb 22, 2017 | Daily Paper Summaries
In this bite we dig into the details of the recent discovery of 7 habitable zone planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1.
by Gourav Khullar | Feb 3, 2017 | Classics, Daily Paper Summaries
Today’s ‘beyond’ bite takes you back to 2000, when a new telescope meant to survey the night sky takes the astrophysics community by storm.
by Kerrin Hensley | Jan 23, 2017 | Daily Paper Summaries
Planetary nebulae where they shouldn’t be–how did they get there?
by Sam Turnpenney | Jan 12, 2017 | Daily Paper Summaries
Powerful auroras have been detected at a nearby brown dwarf. Today we’ll be discussing this discovery, which is the first instance of auroras found outside of the solar system.
by Thankful Cromartie | Jan 10, 2017 | Daily Paper Summaries
What happens when a pulsar plows through our Galaxy at irresponsible speeds, exceeding the sound speed of the interstellar medium? The answer may (bow) shock you.