At CU Boulder, federal funding also supports research projects like the Dust Accelerator Laboratory that helps us understand ...

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Seeing an aurora is often considered a bucket list experience. Learn how a cartographer used maps to improve his chances.

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Snow, born Martin Fulterman in New York, grew up in Brooklyn. In the 1960s, he started the band Emil and the Detectives with ...

The strength of Earth’s magnetic field and the amount of oxygen in its atmosphere seem to be correlated—and scientists want ...

But thanks to this new research, we now know a little more about this icy giant. According to the research, which assessed Hubble images taken between 2002 and 2022, the main components of Uranus ...

Although the results of this study cover a long 20-year period, this still only reflects one period of seasonal change in Uranus’ atmosphere.

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Its atmosphere is mainly composed of hydrogen and helium, like that of Jupiter, our solar system's largest planet. But WASP-121b's atmosphere is not like anything ever seen before.

Atmospheric composition, climate and pollution research studies using Cape Grim radon data. Cape Grim radon measurements have been used in a wide variety of collaborative research studies, and the ...