The discovery of glycine in a comet supports the idea that the fundamental building blocks of life are prevalent in space. Read more.
Reale, et al. (2009)
Tiny flares responsible for outsized heat of Sun’s atmosphere
Nanoflares are sudden bursts of energy that are so small they cannot be resolved individually. Read more.
A. Bouchez et al.
Scientists discover storms in the tropics of Titan
No one considered how storms in one location can trigger them in many other locations. Read more.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
Mars orbiter shows angled view of martian crater
The high-resolution camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has returned a dramatic oblique view of the martian crater that a rover explored for 2 years. Read more.
Among the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer expected finds are hundreds of thousands of asteroids in our solar system’s asteroid belt and hundreds of additional asteroids that come near Earth. Read more.
Cristina Ryan
Red giant star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion is mysteriously shrinking
Over 15 years Betelgeuse has decreased in size about 15 percent, changing smoothly, but faster as the years progressed. Read more.
