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Discovery of the Solar System’s most powerful energy source

Amit Malewar

Generates six times the power of Earth's total output.

asteroid bennu
Space

Big revelation: Life’s ingredients found in NASA’s asteroid Bennu sample

Amit Malewar

Conditions necessary for the emergence of life were widespread across the early solar system.

74 exocomet belts
Space

Unprecedented images of Exocomet belts around nearby stars

Amit Malewar

Diversity in belt structures, from narrow rings to wide disks.

tycho Supernova remnant
Space

How collisionless shock waves can accelerate particles to extreme speeds?

Amit Malewar

Breakthrough in understanding cosmic particle accelerators.

trans-Neptunian objects
Space

Webb gives the best glimpse ever into the icy planetesimals of the early solar system

Pranjal Malewar

A clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved.

Artist's impression of what the Moon looked like during the tidal-heating event.
Space

The moon underwent a ‘remelting’ 4.35 billion years ago

Amit Malewar

A ‘remelting’ of lunar surface adds a wrinkle to mystery of Moon’s true age.

Making Mars’ Moons: Supercomputers Offer ‘Disruptive’ New Explanation
Space

The origin of Mar’s moons

Amit Malewar

How did Mars get its moons?

Aesthetic planet galaxy background
Space

New equation to track Earth-bound asteroids more precisely

Pranjal Malewar

Identifying asteroids on a potential collision course with Earth could be made easier.

The solar surface in visible light
Space

ESA’s Solar Orbiter offers the first high-resolution view of the entire solar disk

Amit Malewar

The solar fire up close.

Uranus
Space

Uranus’s upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades. Now, scientists have shown why

Amit Malewar

The team predict Uranus’ upper atmosphere should continue to get colder or reverse the trend.

solar neighbourhoo
Space

A new interstellar tunnel found in our solar system’s hot bubble

Amit Malewar

eROSITA unveils asymmetries in temperature and shape of our Local Hot Bubble.

cyanopyrene
Space

Astronomers discovered a new, complex molecule in the depths of interstellar space

Pranjal Malewar

A cosmic chemical breakthrough.

Planet Jupiter great red spot
Space

Unexpected size changes observed in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

Amit Malewar

Jupiter's Great Red Spot behave like a stress ball.

Global maps of coronal magnetic field
Space

The international team produces global maps of the coronal magnetic field

Amit Malewar

For the first time, scientists have conducted near-daily measurements of the Sun's global coronal magnetic field, a region that has historically been observed only...

Artist's illustration of the exoplanet WASP-107b
Space

A glimpse of a uniquely inflated and asymmetric exoplanet

Amit Malewar

The exoplanet WASP-107b is tidally locked to its star.

solar-eruption
AI & Machine Learning

Researchers to develop AI-powered solar eruption forecasting system

Ashwini Sakharkar

AI system for more quickly and accurately predicting when explosive space weather events on the Sun.

Asteroid Bennu Particles.
Space

4.5-billion-year-old asteroid helps reveal our solar system’s origins

Amit Malewar

Uncovering the secrets hidden within a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid.

Iron meteorites are remnants of the metallic cores of the earliest asteroids in our solar system.
Space

Our infant solar system had to have been doughnut-shaped

Amit Malewar

Iron meteorite helps unravel the mystery of our solar system's birth.

This is an artist's impression of a Kuiper Belt object (KBO)
Space

The Discovery of CO2 and CO Ices in the Outer Solar System

Amit Malewar

Researchers Discover Carbon Dioxide and Carbon Monoxide Ices on Trans-Neptunian Objects The Discovery of CO2 and CO Ices in the Outer Solar System

WASP-107 b
Space

Webb Telescope offers first glimpse of an exoplanet’s interior

Amit Malewar

A surprisingly low amount of methane and a super-sized core hide within the cotton candy–like planet.

Illustration of Exoplanet 55 Cancri e and Its Star
Space

Astrophysicist Discovers Fiery, Volcanic Planet 66 Light Years Away from Earth

Amit Malewar

UC Riverside's astrophysicist, Stephen Kane, has made a groundbreaking discovery. He has found a planet called HD104067.01 that is situated in a star system...

Super-Earth exoplanet 55 Cancri e (artist’s concept)
Space

Webb Space Telescope detects atmosphere on Exoplanet 55 Cancri e

Editorial Team

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope find evidence of atmospheric gases surrounding a rocky exoplanet.

Probing the effects of interplanetary space on asteroid Ryugu
Space

Study probes how interplanetary space affects the asteroid Ryugu

Amit Malewar

Samples reveal evidence of changes experienced by the surface of asteroid Ryugu.

brown dwarf W1935
Space

Unexpected: Astronomers have discovered methane emission on a brown dwarf

Amit Malewar

An Aurora on an isolated world.

planet-forming disk
Space

Webb captures the end of planet formation

Amit Malewar

How much time do planets have to form from a swirling disk of gas and dust around a star?

supermassive black hole in NGC 3783
Space

JWST identified neon signs that offer clues to planet formation

Amit Malewar

Using the noble gases neon and argon.

Artist’s impression of WD 0816-310, a magnetic white dwarf with a metal scar
Space

A scar imprinted on the surface of a white dwarf star

Amit Malewar

This scar is a concentrated patch of planetary material.

exoplanet GJ 9827d
Space

Study of exoplanets: Neptune-like exoplanets can be cloudy or clear

Amit Malewar

New findings suggest the reason why.

Spaceship orbits deep galaxy
Earth

Meteorite analysis: Earth’s building blocks contained water

Amit Malewar

Study combines meteorite data with thermodynamic modeling.

three-ringed structure
Space

Astronomers detected three iron rings in a planet-forming disk

Amit Malewar

A three-ringed structure in the nursery of planets.

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