A thick plume of sand and dust from the Sahara Desert is a breathtaking and complex phenomenon that showcases the interplay between natural systems and human health. Commonly occurring during
A thick plume of sand and dust from the Sahara Desert is a breathtaking and complex phenomenon that showcases the interplay between natural systems and human health. Commonly occurring during
Portrait of Dave Des Marais Let’s start with your childhood, where you’re from, your family at the time, if you have siblings, your early years, and when it was that
Astronomers have discovered the most powerful cosmic explosions since the Big Bang, naming them “extreme nuclear transients.” These incredibly energetic explosions occur when stars with masses at least three times
Arsia Mons, an ancient Martian volcano, was captured before dawn on May 2, 2025, by NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter while the spacecraft was studying the Red Planet’s atmosphere, which
The Boeing Starliner spacecraft is lifted at the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Image: NASA/Kim
Amazon’s second fleet of internet satellites now has a target launch date. The stack of 27 satellites, part of Amazon’s Project Kuiper constellation, is scheduled to launch on a United
Mercury and Jupiter will fit within the field of view of a pair of 10×50 binoculars (denoted by the yellow circle) after sunset on June 7. (Image credit: Starry Night)
Condensation of major rock-forming phases from a gas of solar composition at P = 10-3 bar (modified after Davis and Richter, 2007). The first phases to form upon cooling are
Left: Map of the Orion Molecular Cloud (OMC) complex obtained with the IRAM 30m telescope in CO 2–1. The data are taken from Berné et al. . We indicate the
Overlook crater” near the summit of Kilauea Volcano — USGS It is important that we are able to accurately model the atmospheres of (exo)planets. This is because atmospheres play a