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 E-Mail IMAGE: An infrared image of the dust clouds in the Cocoon region taken with the Spitzers Space Telescope's IR photometer. The HAWC TeV gamma-ray excess (color from green to yellow to... view more  Credit: TeV: Binita Hona (HAWC Collaboration), IR: Hora et. al, Spitzer's Growing Legacy, ASP Conference Series, 2010, P. Ogle, ed. LOS ALAMOS, N.M., March 11, 2021--A long-time question in astrophysics appears to finally be answered, thanks to a collection of large, high-tech water tanks on a mountainside in Mexico. The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) data shows that the hig...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Weathering of silicate rocks is part of the so-called carbon cycle that maintains a temperate climate on Earth over long periods of time. view more  Credit: © Universität Bern / University of Bern, Illustration: Jenny Leibundgut The conditions on Earth are ideal for life. Most places on our planet are neither too hot nor too cold and offer liquid water. These and other requirements for life, however, delicately depend on the right composition of the atmosphere. Too little or too much of certain gases - like carbon dioxide - and Earth could become a ball of ice or tu...

 E-Mail Astronomers have discovered new hints of a giant, scorching-hot planet orbiting Vega, one of the brightest stars in the night sky. The research, published this month in The Astronomical Journal, was led by University of Colorado Boulder student Spencer Hurt, an undergraduate in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences. It focuses on an iconic and relatively young star, Vega, which is part of the constellation Lyra and has a mass twice that of our own sun. This celestial body sits just 25 light-years, or about 150 trillion miles, from Earth--pretty close, astronomicall...

Chemistry is helping us figure out how life got started on Earth and is giving us molecules to look for on other planets. In this episode of Reactions, we break down what ''life'' is and how likely we are to find it out in the cosmos: https://youtu.be/f44OWlsLeT0.

 E-Mail IMAGE: The rotating furnace used to make light-weight, advanced telescope mirrors is located underneath of the stands of University of Arizona's football stadium. In this image, the oven's 33-foot diameter lid... view more  Credit: Damien Jemison, Giant Magellan Telescope - GMTO Corporation At 3 p.m. on March 5, a gigantic furnace will slowly start spinning underneath the stands of Arizona Stadium at the University of Arizona. Fire-engine red, massive in size and resembling a sci-fi version of a Dutch oven, the furnace is the only one of its kind, and its sole purpose is to ...