162 results for "water vapor"

Posted on Jul 28, 2021 in Astronomy, Science, Solar System Scientists using new and archival data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered for the first time evidence of water...

Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have detected a water-rich atmosphere on GJ 9827 d, a small exoplanet located 98 light-years away. With a unique composition of heavier…

Scientists have discovered a staggering amount of water surrounding a young star system, HL Tauri, located 450 light-years from Earth. The water detected is equivalent to three times the volume…

The lunar landscape, once thought to be a barren wasteland, is now revealing its hidden treasures. Recent findings from NASA's VIPER mission have unveiled a startling revelation : water is present...

In a major advancement for space exploration, scientists have developed a method to extract water from moon dust, potentially revolutionizing the future of lunar colonization. Researchers from the Chinese Academy...

A groundbreaking new study has revealed that many rocky exoplanets, particularly larger ones known as "super-Earths," may have massive reservoirs of water trapped deep within their molten cores. This discovery...

One of the James Webb Space Telescope’s (scheduled for launch on October 21) first tasks will be to learn why Mars lost so much water over its 4.5-billion-year history turning...

Posted on Mar 16, 2021 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Exoplanets, Science News “Liquid magma is actually quite runny,” said University of Chicago planetary scientist, Edwin Kite, about a new study by...

Posted on Oct 26, 2020 in Astronomy, Science Our Moon has yielded some long-held secrets in recent weeks, from possible evidence of ancient life on Venus to NASA’s new discovery...

Posted on Apr 1, 2021 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Milky Way Galaxy, Science “Plumes of water erupt from Europa and Enceladus, so we can tell that these bodies have subsurface oceans...

Posted on Mar 7, 2020 in Astronomy, Astrophysics The nucleus of an enormous spiral galaxy 160 million light years away –at a point where the universe is vastly expanded, and...

Posted on Nov 27, 2019 in Astronomy, NASA, Science, Space “Global dust storms are really unusual,” said Mars Climate Sounder scientist David Kass of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “We really...

Posted on Oct 8, 2019 in Astronomy, Extraterrestrial Life, Science “We went to Gale Crater because it preserves this unique record of a changing Mars,” said William Rapin of Caltech....

K2-18b, which is eight times the mass of Earth, is now the only exoplanet known to have both water and temperatures that could support life. The discovery is the first...

Posted on Aug 1, 2019 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Featured Articles, Space The scorching hot exoplanet “hot Jupiter, WASP-121b, with an upper atmosphere reaching a blazing 4,600 degrees Fahrenheit, is sending...

Scientists with a NASA-led expedition are operating from the Inner Space Center at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography using telepresence –virtual reality technology–as colleagues explore the...

Posted on Mar 27, 2019 in Science “Any icy satellite or planetary interior is intimately connected to the object’s surface,” said Arianna Gleason-Holbrook, at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and...

Posted on Dec 3, 2018 The water in Saturn’s rings and satellites is like that on Earth except for its bastard moon  Phoebe, “which is out of this world,” was...

Posted on Aug 21, 2018 A key controversy of the post-Apollo era was whether the lunar poles might contain water or not.  Although the Apollo samples had been studied and found...

Posted on Aug 10, 2018 “The daysides of these worlds are furnaces that look more like a stellar atmosphere than a planetary atmosphere,” said Vivien Parmentier, an astrophysicist at Aix...

“It’s amazing to think that the enigmatic intermediate-size exoplanets could be water worlds with vast amounts of water. Hopefully atmosphere observations in the future–of thick steam atmospheres—can support or refute...

Posted on May 17, 2018 in Climate Change, Environmental, NASA “What we are witnessing is major hydrologic change,” said co-author Jay Famiglietti of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena,...

“What we are seeing for the first time are Earth-sized planets that have a lot of water or ice on them,” says Arizona State University astrophysicist, Steven Desch. TRAPPIST-1 is...

Posted on Sep 19, 2017 in Uncategorized During almost four years of observing the cosmos, the Herschel Space Observatory traced out the presence of water. With its unprecedented sensitivity and...

Posted on May 30, 2017 “Gale crater once held a lake with water that we would even have been able to drink, but we still don’t know how long this...

Located some 3 kilometers underneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean,, scientists have discovered the hottest water ever found on Earth emanating from two black smokers called Two Boats and...

NASA is preparing to launch the Europa Clipper mission on October 10, 2024, marking the start of a six-year journey to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. The spacecraft, NASA’s largest planetary…

The ozone hole over the South Pole has expanded to an unprecedented 26 million square kilometers, making it three times the size of Brazil. This alarming development has caught the…

A recent study has uncovered that a colossal asteroid impact, occurring approximately 4 billion years ago, dramatically altered the rotational axis of Ganymede, the largest moon in our solar system....

Saturn, one of the most captivating planets in our solar system, is famous for its stunning and intricate ring system. These rings, composed primarily of ice particles, rocky debris, and...

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has made a significant breakthrough in astronomical observation, achieving the highest resolution images of black holes ever obtained from Earth. By detecting light at...

Scientists are increasingly intrigued by the potential insights offered by the air contained in the sample tubes collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars. These samples provide a unique opportunity...

A recent discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed the presence of sulfur dioxide (SO₂) in the atmosphere of the exoplanet GJ 3470b, challenging existing theories of...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been making significant strides in the exploration of potentially habitable exoplanets. Recent observations have focused on a handful of small, rocky planets located within...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has provided groundbreaking insights into the unusual exoplanet WASP-107 b, uncovering the mechanisms behind its unexpectedly low density. This discovery marks a significant step...

Recent studies confirm a concerning trend: tropical cyclones in coastal regions around the globe are intensifying at a faster rate, with climate change playing a significant role in this escalation....

Posted on Jul 13, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Cosmology, Dark Matter, Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial Life, James Webb Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Milky Way Galaxy, quantum physics, Science, Science...

Posted on May 26, 2022 in Biology, Climate Change, Evolution, Galaxies, James Webb Space Telescope, Milky Way Galaxy, Pandemic, Physics, Planet Earth, Science, Science News, Technology, Universe Today’s stories range...

In the 1980’S Carl Sagan observed that the human species had reached the shore of the cosmic ocean. A mere two decades ago, astronomers debated the existence of planets beyond...

Today’s stories range from Odd Radio Circles in Space to Why Our Sun Didn’t Have Sunspots for 70 years to NASA Should Send This New Message To Extraterrestrials With An...

Posted on Feb 8, 2022 in Astronomy, Magnetic Fields, Milky Way Galaxy The opening episode of star formation in the Milky Way occurs in long, dense filaments of gas and...

Posted on Feb 6, 2022 in Astronomy, Astrophysics Related Posts Jupiter’s Great Red Spot –“Could It Be a Way Station on the Long Road to Life?” “It’s Just Not Possible”...

Saturn’s moon Enceladus is unique in our Solar System — with plumes of water vapor and ice perpetually erupting, shooting jets hundreds of miles into space from its global subsurface...

Was Venus the first habitable planet in the Solar System? NASA intends to find out. “It is astounding how little we know about Venus, but the combined results of these...

“With its larger size and atmosphere,” exoplanetologist Diana Dragomir told The Daily Galaxy, “TOI-1231b promises to give us a glimpse into the rate of atmospheric evaporation caused by its M...

Scientists have long speculated that Juptiter’s moon Europa has an icy crust covering a vast, global ocean –what Caltech’s Mike Brown describes as a “miniature Earth” ocean. The rocky layer...

Will New NASA and ESA Missions Show Early Venus Had Oceans and Life? ESA and NASA have decided this year to send no less than three space exploration missions over...

“Early Mars was an extremely active planet from a geological point of view,” said Alberto G. Fairén, a visiting astrobiologist at Cornell University. “The planet had the conditions needed to...

With a layered inner structure including a liquid iron core, a thin oxygen-rich atmosphere, an ice-shrouded global ocean with surface plumes that may spew signs of life, and an induced...

“Something is going on on Enceladus – it’s active and we want to know,” said astrophysicist and curator at California’s Griffith Observatory, Laura Danly. That “something” turned out to be...