Climatologists get to grips with aerosols
The airborne spicks and specks known as aerosol particles are created by both natural and human processes and can consist…
Monsoon Formation Theory Gets Overhaul
Geoscientists from the California Institute of Technology have proposed a new explanation for the formation of monsoons, overhauling a traditional…
Hubble Captures Birth Of A Planet
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of a “blizzard” of particles in a disk around a young star, shedding…
Early Biosphere Productivity Boosted By Cosmic Rays
A frenetic period of star-making in the Milky Way about two-and-a-half billion years ago had extraordinary effects on life on…
Black Holes A Cosmic Contraceptive?
Astronomers from Yale and Leiden University in The Netherlands have discovered that old stars dominated many large galaxies in the…
New Theory Predicts Plenty Of Earth-Like Planets
NASA scientists say that more than one-third of the giant planet systems recently detected outside Earth’s solar system may harbor…
Stars Gone Wild
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has snapped some pictures of the dusty core of two merging galaxies and uncovered a region…
Mountains Formed In The Blink Of An Eye
Geologists writing in the journal Nature say they have discovered that the time it takes for mountain ranges to form…