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Study Offers New Insights into Extraterrestrial Origins of Earth’s Water

By News Staff March 16, 2023

In new research, planetary scientists from the University of Maryland and elsewhere analyzed melted meteorites that had been floating around in space since the Solar System’s formation around 4.5 billion…

Venus Has Ongoing Active Volcanism, New Study Confirms

By News Staff March 15, 2023

Planetary scientists have examined volcanic areas on Venus that were imaged two or three times by NASA’s Magellan spacecraft and identified a 2.2-km2 volcanic vent that changed shape in the…

Rotation of Europa’s Ice Shell May Be Controlled By Dynamics of Subsurface Ocean: Study

By News Staff March 14, 2023

The subsurface ocean of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is heated from below via tidal heating and radioactive decay of the rocky interior, while being cooled from above by its frozen…

Curiosity Rover Images Sun Rays and Feather-Shaped Clouds on Mars

By News Staff March 6, 2023

‘Sun rays’ are also known as crepuscular rays, from the Latin word for twilight. It was the first time sun rays have been so clearly viewed on Mars. This feather-shaped…

Cosmic-Ray Muons Reveal Hidden Structure in Khufu’s Pyramid

By News Staff March 6, 2023

Khufu’s Pyramid is one of the largest archaeological monuments all over the world, which still holds many mysteries. In 2016 and 2017, the ScanPyramids team reported on several discoveries of…

Researchers Create Space Salad for Astronauts

By News Staff March 3, 2023

The space salad contains ingredients — including soybean, poppy, barley, kale, peanuts, sweet potato and sunflower seeds — that could be grown on spacecraft and provide optimum nutrition for astronauts.…

DART Offers Insight into How Deflection Missions Can Protect Earth from Hazardous Asteroids

By News Staff March 2, 2023

On September 26, 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) intentionally slammed into the 160-m-wide asteroid moonlet Dimorphos — which orbits the larger, 780-m-wide asteroid Didymos — for the first…

Venus’ Outer Shell is Shaping Planet’s Surface, Study Suggests

By News Staff February 24, 2023

Earth has a hot core that heats the surrounding mantle, which carries that heat up to the planet’s lithosphere. The heat is then lost to space, cooling the uppermost region…

Planetary Scientists Create Two New Forms of Extraterrestrial Ice

By News Staff February 21, 2023

University of Washington researcher Baptiste Journaux and colleagues believe the newly-created substances could form at the surface and bottom of deep oceans on Jupiter’s icy moons Europa and Ganymede. This…

Electricity in Martian Dust Storms Could Be Major Driving Force of Planet’s Chlorine Cycle

By News Staff February 20, 2023

Frictional electrification is a common process in the Solar System, with Martian dust activities known to be a powerful source of electrical charge buildup. Furthermore, the thin atmosphere on the…