New Ceres Images Show Bright Craters
Ceres' Haulani Crater, with a diameter of 21 miles (34 kilometers), shows evidence of landslides from its crater rim.
Lone Planetary-Mass Object Found in Family of Stars
A young, free-floating world sits alone in space in this illustration. The object, called WISEA J114724.10?204021.3, is...
Unexpected discovery leads to a better battery: Renewable energy storage possible thanks to chemical conversions
PNNL's improved aqueous zinc-manganese oxide battery offers a cost-effective, environmentally friendly alternative for storing renewable...
System creates on-demand 'nanotube forests,' has potential industry applications
This graphic illustrates a system that uses a laser and electrical field to precisely position and align carbon nanotubes, representing a...
Investigating the Mystery of Migrating 'Hot Jupiters'
The turbulent atmosphere of a hot, gaseous planet known as HD 80606b is shown in this simulation based on data from...
NASA's Spitzer Maps Climate Patterns on a Super-Earth
This illustration shows one possible scenario for the hot, rocky exoplanet called 55 Cancri e,...
New nanodevice shifts light's color at single-photon level
False-colored scanning electron micrograph of the nanophotonic frequency converter, consisting of a ring-shaped resonator (shaded blue)...
Quantum computing closer as RMIT drives towards first quantum data bus: RMIT researchers trialling a quantum processor capable of routing information from different locations have found a pathway towards the quantum data bus
Quantum information is encoded in single particles of light (photons). The perfect state transfer is applied to one photon of an...
