Subject: Earth and Planetary Science

Astronomers from Chalmers University of Technology and Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden, studied supermassive black holes to find out whether they were surrounded by a magnetic field. Supermassive black holes, often with masses billions of times Read More

A group of researchers, including Dr. John Pasley of the York Plasma Institute, Department of Physics, discovered that stars generate sound. While studying the interaction of an ultra-intense laser with a plasma target, the team Read More

A team of Japanese researchers found an unusual community of bacteria thriving in the canyon called Challenger Deep. At 36,000 feet below sea level, it is the lowest point on Earth’s surface and the deepest Read More

An international group of astronomers has made a significant discovery using NASA’s Keplar spacecraft. Three planets that are just a little bigger than Earth have been spotted orbiting an M-dwarf star known as EPIC 201367075 Read More

Giant sand dunes make up the surface of Titan, Saturn’s moon, and these dunes made of hydrocarbon particles may have existed for thousands of years. Radar images of the dunes by NASA’s Cassini Read More

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Philae spacecraft created history when it landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The spacecraft began its journey to the comet 10 years back. On November 12, Philae separated from the mother ship Read More

Astronomer George Fraser of the University of Leicester, UK, and his team have analyzed telescope data collected over 12 years and found a signal that could be the first-ever detection of dark matter. The dark matter Read More

Could water have been one of the planet-forming materials in the Solar System? Ilsedore Cleeves, an astrochemist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, conducted a study wherein she created a model that replicates Read More

Latest findings suggest that Saturn’s rings originated around 4.4 billion years ago. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting Saturn since 2004, has measured the rate at which dust from outside the Saturn system is Read More

In mid-July, a mysterious 30-meter-wide crater was spotted in the frozen Yamal peninsula in Siberia. Although many theories abounded over the cause of the crater, researchers in Russia believe the mysterious hole was left behind Read More