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A new study supports the longstanding idea that if life exists, it might make a home in Venus’ clouds. The study’s authors identified a chemical pathway by which life could neutralize Venus’ acidic environment, creating a self-sustaining, habitable pocket in the clouds.
The MIT-led TESS mission has discovered an ultra-short-period planet (USP) that is also super light. The planet is named GJ 367 b, and it orbits its star in just eight hours. The planet is about the size of Mars, and half as massive as the Earth, making it one of the lightest planets discovered to date.
Credits: Photo courtesy of the researcher. Caption: Mark Vogelsberger and his colleagues created simulations showing that competing models of dark matter produce primordial star-forming regions that look very different from one another. Credits: Courtesy of the researchers Previous image Next image Mark Vogelsberger, an associate professor of physics at MIT, has received the 2020 Buchalter Cosmology Prize in a collaboration led by Phillip Mocz, a postdoc at Princeton University. Their researc...