Potential Habitability of Extremely Tilted Planets
What happens when you take an Earth-like planet and tilt it nearly on its side? For life, its not as crazy as it sounds.
Case of the missing Nitrogen on Comet 67P
Ammonium salts have been discovered on Comet 67P! This discovery helps solve a big mystery about the nitrogen content on the comet, which was previously measured to be lower than expected.
Our Solar System: Another Planet or Another Disk?
Can a giant, dense disk at the outer reaches of our Solar System explain a perplexing set of observations? Read on to find out more!
Emerging from the shadows: A method for detecting complex life on exoplanets
Lifeforms like trees cast unique shadows on the Earth’s surface. Understanding this effect may enable remote detection of life on exoplanets.
Table Salt detected on Europa!
Using a spectrometer on the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have detected sodium chloride, a.k.a., table salt, on the surface of Europa!
The Beating Heart(-Shaped Region) of Pluto
Like human, like dwarf planet – it turns out Pluto’s heart has a “heartbeat.”