02 December 2015
Displaced dusty planet booted out of its birthplace
..., whose orbit around its host star is 16 times farther than Pluto is from the sun, could also be an indication of planet displacement by large body interaction. Nonetheless initial investigations into HD 106906 b led some researchers to suggest that...
22 December 2015
Magnetic fields around protostar gives a new twist on star formation
... Observations of the protostar and its envelope also indicate that numerous particles, from millimetre to centimetresized,... – a baby in astronomical timescales – it could be an indication that grains form and grow quickly in the environment of a still...
23 December 2015
First new 'ground truth' in 40 years as Chinese rover Yuto presents analysis of moon rocks
... Orbiter’s Wide Angle Camera showing Chang’e-3 landing site, indicated here with a white square. The landing sites of ...1 weight percent TiO2 to over 15 percent, and is an indication of when the early magma oceans first solidified. Titanium, like other...
02 March 2016
Using MUSCLES to test for life on other planets
... distribution of the radiation field changes dramatically for different habitable zone distances around low-mass stars, as indicated by a decline of more than two orders of magnitude in the far ultraviolet (FUV) and near ultraviolet (NUV) flux...
27 April 2016
Dwarf planet MakeMake found to have a moon
.... Indeed both Pluto and MakeMake are already known to be covered in frozen methane. Preliminary estimates of the moon indicate that it is in a circular orbit around MakeMake and thus completes a circuit around the dwarf planet in 12 days or longer...
11 May 2016
Kepler scientists announce a major increase in confirmed exoplanet numbers
...in their orbit in Earth units. The sizes of the exoplanets indicate the sizes relative to one another. The images of Earth, ... reference. The light and dark green shaded regions indicate the conservative and optimistic habitable zone. Credits: NASA...
