Planetary Science

Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have spotted the heaviest element ever found in an exoplanet atmosphere– barium. They were surprised to find barium at high altitudes in the atmospheres of the ultra-hot gas giants WASP-76 b and WASP-121 b– two exoplanets, planets that orbit stars outside our Solar System.

It might be called a rocky, red planet; however, proof is mounting that salted water there is at the base of polar depositions on Mars. College of Southern Queensland’s Instructor Graziella Caprarelli belongs to an international group researching brilliant reflection signals below the Martian surface area, first spotted in information obtained between 2010 and 2019

On Monday, an international group of astronomers reported the finding of a giant asteroid whose orbit crosses that of Earth, developing a slight possibility far in the future of a disastrous accident. The 1.5-kilometre- (0.9 mile-) wide asteroid, called 2022 AP7, was found in a notoriously challenging location to detect because of the glare from

Ancient microbes on Mars likely triggered a climate change that led to their own demise, a report from Space.com explains. The study was published in Nature Astronomy, and it details how simple microbes that fed on hydrogen and excreted methane were likely abundant on Mars approximately 3.7 billion years back. This was at roughly the

The highest-resolution photo NASA’s Juno objective has ever taken of a specific portion of Jupiter’s moon Europa shows a detailed view of a puzzling region of the moon’s greatly fractured icy crust. The picture covers about 93 miles (150 kilometers) by 125 miles (200 kilometres) of Europa’s surface, revealing an area crisscrossed with a network