23 September 2019
Venus may once have had oceans says a new study
... Mars too once supported an ocean. But what about Earth’s cloud covered twin, Venus? According to a new study presented at ... stopped scientists from trying to take a peek beneath the clouds to see what lies beneath. The first successful Venus probe...
20 November 2019
Insects on Mars, fungi on Venus. Evidence is presented for life on our neighbouring planets
... those oceans evaporated and temperatures rose. That life, might now be hiding out within the lower cloud layers of Venus’ atmosphere or underground to a depth of 10 metres where temperature may be as low as 200 ◦C, which is within the tolerance...
14 February 2020
Arrokoth helps resolve longstanding controversy on Solar System evolution
... the way it does because it formed in a local collapse cloud of the solar nebula. This is far removed from the other...Seattle. “All of the evidence we’ve found points to particle-cloud collapse models, and all but rule out hierarchical accretion for...
19 February 2020
Molecular oxygen detected for the first time in another galaxy
...– one in Orion and the other in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud – and never before has it been seen outside the Milky ... between the AGN-driven molecular outflow and the outer disk molecular clouds,” write Wang and colleagues in their paper. At a distance ...
30 October 2020
It seems there might not be life on Venus after all, say two new studies
... there is no clear signal of phosphine (PH3) high in the clouds of our “twin” planet. On 14th September, a team of researchers..., if it was there, could have persisted aloft in the cloud tops for hundreds of millions to billions of years. While these...
20 November 2020
The iconic Arecibo Observatory to be demolished due to safety concerns
... the visitor center and offsite Culebra facility, which analyses cloud cover and precipitation data. Although the radio dish will be...its visitor center and offsite Culebra facility, which analyses cloud cover and precipitation data, as well as the ...
