This Tiny World in the Outer Solar System Should Be Airless, but It Has an Atmosphere
Artist’s conception of this research showing an imagined time sequence as a star passes behind a TNO with…
Methanogens Through Time and Space: Impact on Earth’s Planetary Evolution and Biogeochemistry
The multiple roles of methanogens in the modern-day carbon cycle. Processes shown in red contribute to greenhouse gas…
Horizontal Transport As A Source Of Disequilibrium Chemistry On The Nightside Of A Hot Exoplanet
NGTS-10 b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits a K-type star. Its mass is 2.162 Jupiters, it…
Designing with Air: Rethinking Architecture Beyond the Wall
Blur Building, Lake Neuchatel, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, 2002. Image Courtesy of Diller Scofidio + Renfro Share Share Facebook Twitter…
The Ozone Layer Is Healing, But There’s a Hidden Catch
Unexpected leaks from industrial chemicals are slowing the ozone layer’s recovery. Cutting these emissions could help the ozone…
Webb Space Telescope Uncovers Unexpected Ice Clouds on a Jupiter-Like World
Artist’s impression of the planet Epsilon Indi Ab, with water clouds atop its ammonia-dominated atmosphere. Credit: E. C.…
Webb Spots Icy Clouds on Distant Jupiter-Like Exoplanet
Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have detected water-ice clouds swirling through the atmosphere of Epsilon…
GJ 523b Is A Massive, 170 Myr-old Mega-Earth, Likely On A Polar Orbit
Radius-density diagram of confirmed exoplanets from the NASA Exoplanet Archive with radii below 5 R⊕ and mass and…
Guest post: How declining cloudiness is accelerating global warming
For the past two decades, low-level cloud cover has been declining, increasing the amount of sunlight absorbed by…
Organosulfur Chemistry On sub-Neptunes: Implications For Hazes And Biosignatures
The network of important reactions for the carbon, sulfur, and coupled organosulfur chemistry in the atmosphere of K2-18b.…
Proton Irradiation of Primitive Atmospheres of Young Exoplanets And Early Earth: N2O Greenhouse Warming And Prebiotic Synthesis
The figure shows the HPLC Chromatograms of Amino Acids produced in the Sample B5 irradiation run. — astro-ph.EP…
Searching For Life-As-We-Don’t-Know-It: Mission-relevant Application of Assembly Theory For Exoplanet Life Detection
Potentially habitable worlds – Grok via Astrobiology.com This white paper introduces a framework for applying Assembly Theory (AT)…