Astronomers ‘de-fog’ exoplanet atmospheres
Artistic representation of WASP-94A b, a gas giant in the Microscopium constellation. Clouds build as air flows over the dark side of the planet, reaching a large swell by daybreak. The clouds...
First ice core from the European Alps dating to last Ice Age
The 1999 expedition team collecting the ice core from Dome du Goûter on the shoulder of Mont Blanc. Credit: LGGE/OSUG, Bruno Jourdain. The first ice core from the European Alps dating back to the last Ice Age, and holds clues to 12,000 years of human and environmental...
Was Mars doomed to be a desert?
NASA’s Curiosity rover captured this photo as it ascended the Martian mountain Mt. Sharp. A study proposes a new explanation for why Mars is a barren desert today, despite having many similarities to Earth. Credit: Photo by NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ MSSS. Public domain....