Planets can orbit a star for billions of years. Electrons circling the atomic nucleus are often visualized as tiny planets. But due to quantum effects, the…
At these lofty elevations, storms of high-energy charged particles – space weather – roil the atmosphere, creating auroras, buffeting satellites, and sometimes…
Semiconductors are vital components in solar cells, LEDs and many other electronics, and the efficient cooling of components is important for future quantum…
“Comets are usually too dim to be seen in the glare of the sun's light,” says Dean Pesnell at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., who is the…
For some time, researchers have explored flammable ice for low-carbon or alternative fuel or as a place to store carbon dioxide. Now, a computer analysis of…
The find, described in a paper published online today (Jan. 18) in the journal Nature, could help astronomers find similar objects and confirm or reject…
The ring is part of the star’s planet-forming disk, and it’s as far from V1052 Cen as Earth is from the sun. Discovered with the European Southern…
The researchers created the one-atom-thick carbon lattice flakes by placing bulk graphite in a solution and bombarding it with ultrasonic waves that broke off…
Now scientists have determined that a structure comprising 32 lead-sulfur pairs is the smallest possible cubic arrangement that exhibits the same coordination…
The discovery was made by a scientific team led by astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) that included three members from Vanderbilt….
On Wednesday, February 1, as part of Perimeter Institute’s Public Lecture Series presented by Sun Life Financial, Kenneth Libbrecht, Physics Professor at…
Although H3+ is the simplest polyatomic molecular ion, its vibrational spectrum at high excitations to date has been neither experimentally precisely known nor…
A Rice University laboratory has found a way to turn common carbon fiber into graphene quantum dots, tiny specks of matter with properties expected to prove…
In a new paper appearing in the Jan. 12 edition of the journal, Nature, astrophysicist Kem Cook as part of an international collaboration, analyzed…
There is on average at least one planet orbiting every star in the Milky Way. This remarkable conclusion comes from an international team of astronomers,…
“For decades, astronomers have harnessed the power of Hubble to unravel the mysteries of the universe,” said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA’s…
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