- Two new studies emphasize that unless the global community drastically lowers emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases to keep warming to the strictest target under the Paris Climate Agreement, sea ice-free summers are going to become common during many of our lifetimes. https://mashable.com/2018/04/02/arctic-sea-ice-temperature-targets/#tteuis05pgqh 5 comments science
- Friday Facts #401 - New terrain, new planet https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-401 456 comments factorio
- New research finds that young planets are flattened structures rather than spherical https://phys.org/news/2024-02-young-planets-flattened-spherical.html 147 comments space
- New findings show that JWST could strongly detect certain gasses associated with a habitable planet & signs of past, present, or technologically advanced life in the atmospheres of Earth-like planets around M dwarf stars. https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/the-earth-as-a-transiting-exoplanet/ 11 comments space
- New research reveals Earth-like biospheres on other planets may be much rarer than previously thought. https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Earth_like_biospheres_on_other_planets_may_be_rare_999.html 14 comments space
- Contrails from aeroplanes warm the planet – here's how new low-soot fuels can help https://theconversation.com/contrails-from-aeroplanes-warm-the-planet-heres-how-new-low-soot-fuels-can-help-162779 3 comments environment
- Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 7th flight on the Red Planet. Ingenuity made its way to another new airfield. https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-aces-seventh-flight 5 comments space
- A new study suggests that the Earth likely got a lot of its precious water from the original materials that built the planet, instead of having water arrive later from afar. https://www.npr.org/2020/08/27/906654225/water-water-every-where-and-now-scientists-know-where-it-came-from?utm_source=pocket-newtab 12 comments science
- About 6 habitable planets can realistically exist around a single star, new study concludes. https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2020/07/31/surprising-number-exoplanets-could-host-life 30 comments science
- As many as six billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy, according to new estimates https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200616100831.htm 19 comments worldnews
- What Michael Moore’s new film gets wrong about renewable energy: Planet of the Humans relies too much on outdated information https://www.sciencenews.org/article/what-michael-moore-new-film-gets-wrong-about-renewable-energy 64 comments energy
- 'Minor planet' bonanza: 139 new objects discovered beyond Neptune https://www.space.com/minor-planets-beyond-neptune-dark-energy-survey.html 4 comments space
- By measuring iron isotopes, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have shown that our planet originally formed much faster than previously thought. This finding provides new insights on both planetary formation and the likelihood of water and life elsewhere in the universe. https://news.ku.dk/all_news/2020/02/the-earth-formed-much-faster-than-previously-thought/ 5 comments science
- Climate change is making stronger El Ninos, which change weather worldwide and heat up an already warming planet, a new study finds https://apnews.com/4379af505f994766a4fa332e9c7a923a 30 comments science
- What if planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? A New Paper Investigates the Possibility That the Theorized “Planet 9” is Actually a Primordial Black Hole https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.11090.pdf 22 comments space
- A new study provides the most accurate estimate of the frequency that planets that are similar to Earth in size and in distance from their host star occur around stars similar to our Sun http://science.psu.edu/news/ford8-2019 7 comments science
- Green New Deal Could “Remake Not Just a Broken Planet, But a Broken Society" https://truthout.org/video/green-new-deal-could-remake-not-just-a-broken-planet-but-a-broken-society/ 4 comments politics
- New potentially habitabile planet discovered by Kepler https://dailygalaxy.com/2019/01/new-habitable-kepler-world-discovered-human-eyes-found-it-buried-in-the-data/ 2132 comments space
- U.N. reports forecast a lonelier planet with fewer plants and animals: Earth is losing plants, animals and clean water at a dramatic rate, according to four new United Nations scientific reports that provide the most comprehensive and localized look at the state of biodiversity. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/24/world/science-health-world/u-n-reports-forecast-lonelier-planet-fewer-plants-animals/#.wryr8yhubiu 48 comments worldnews
- One of the planet's biggest potential carbon sinks doesn't require carbon to sink very far. According to new research, soil minerals buried just a few feet below the surface can store vast amounts of carbon. https://news.wsu.edu/2017/11/08/huge-carbon-sink-in-soil/ 3 comments science
- New research suggests bigger, better-protected marine reserves can help protect the planet and its oceans from the negative effects of global warming. http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2017/jun/international-science-team-marine-reserves-can-help-mitigate-climate-change 2 comments science
- New Definition Would Make the Moon and Pluto Planets http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-definition-would-make-moon-and-pluto-planets-180962379/ 6 comments space
- A new study suggests that, for a planet, simply being in the habitable "Goldilocks" zone isn't sufficient to support life. A planet also must start with an internal temperature that is just right. http://phys.org/news/2016-08-goldilocks-habitable-planets.html 113 comments science
- Archaeologists believe they have identified a new way of putting accurate dates to great events of prehistory. Rare and spectacular storms on the sun appear to have left their mark in forests and fields around the planet over the past 5,000 years. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/17/traces-of-sun-storms-locked-in-tree-rings-could-confirm-ancient-historical-dates-astrochronology?cmp=twt_a-science_b-gdnscience 17 comments science
- Astronomers have announced the potential discovery of a new ninth planet in our solar system http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/feature-astronomers-say-neptune-sized-planet-lurks-unseen-solar-system?utm_source=newsfromscience&utm_medium=facebook-text&utm_campaign=planetx-1988 7 comments science
- Thanks to an automated robotic telescope, scientists have spotted three new super-Earths in our cosmic backyard. The planets orbit a star just 54 light years away from Earth. "The three planets are unlike anything in our solar system, with masses 7-8 times the mass of Earth" http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/04/29/automated-planet-finder-spots-three-new-super-earths-orbiting-a-nearby-star/?tid=rssfeed 6 comments science
- NASA takes new images of dwarf planet Ceres http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/20/living/dawn-ceres-new-images-feat/ 43 comments science
- NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Discovers New Batch of Earthlike Planets http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/01/150106-kepler-goldilocks-exoplanets-universe-space-science/?sf6778678=1 7 comments space
- 8 NEW "earth like" planets discovered in distant solar systems http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30705517?ocid=socialflow_twitter 29 comments space
- New Horizons Enters ‘Pluto-Space!’ To Celebrate, Here Are Pictures Of The Dwarf Planet http://www.universetoday.com/113006/new-horizons-enters-pluto-space-to-celebrate-here-are-pictures-of-the-dwarf-planet/ 7 comments space
- New method of finding planets scores its first discovery http://kepler.nasa.gov/news/nasakeplernews/index.cfm?fuseaction=shownews&newsid=266 4 comments science
- German Scientists Discover New Planet Outside Solar System http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,3034624,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-top-1022-rdf 2 comments science
- Ask reddit: Who would colonize a new planet and not look back? http://science.reddit.com/info/2xdou/comments 15 comments science
- A new image of Mars taken by UAE's Hope probe was released. New data shows larger amounts of oxygen on planet than previously expected! https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/2021/10/09/sheikh-mohammed-bin-rashid-shares-new-image-of-mars-taken-by-hope-probe/ 73 comments space
- New paper describes a toy scenario in which a planet orbiting a black hole remains habitable. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab5dab#apjab5dabs2 27 comments space
- Despite boiling temperatures, Mercury manages to maintain stable glaciers. According to new research, the glaciers, which are up to 160 feet (50 m) thick and 50 million years old, formed when free-floating water ice from comet and asteroid impacts settled in deep craters on the planet's night side. http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/01/exploring-glaciers-on-mercury-a-planet-plagued-by-boiling-temperatures 9 comments science
- Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology announced Wednesday that they have found new evidence of a giant icy planet lurking in the darkness of our solar system far beyond the orbit of Pluto. They are calling it "Planet Nine." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/01/20/new-evidence-suggests-a-ninth-planet-lurking-at-the-edge-of-the-solar-system/ 19 comments worldnews
- Researchers have identified a young star with four Jupiter and Saturn-sized planets in orbit around it, the first time that so many massive planets have been detected in such a young system. The system has also set a new record for the most extreme range of orbits yet observed https://phys.org/news/2018-10-giant-planets-young-star.html 248 comments space
- With Flyby, Pluto Portrait Is Last New Face in Solar System | New Horizons makes its closest approach to the dwarf planet, focusing on data collection at the expense of phoning home until Tuesday night. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/150714-pluto-flyby-new-horizons-space/ 3 comments space
- Did the Solar System Just Gain 2 New Worlds? - A pair of scientific papers suggest that the ALMA observatory may have detected 2 new "planet-scale" objects associated with the outer realms of the solar system. But should we be awed or skeptical? http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/did-the-solar-system-just-gain-2-new-worlds/ 5 comments worldnews