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Study: Plate Tectonics is not a Requirement for Life to Originate on Earth-Like Planet

By News Staff June 15, 2023

Plate tectonics is a fundamental factor in the sustained habitability of Earth, but its time of onset is unknown, with ages ranging from the Hadean to Proterozoic eon. University of…

Parker Solar Probe Identifies Mechanism Driving Fast Solar Wind

By News Staff June 12, 2023

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has flown close enough to the Sun to detect the fine structure of the solar wind close to where it is generated at the solar surface,…

Is Frying Possible in Space?

By Natali Anderson June 12, 2023

French fries are a very popular food commodity across many cultural backgrounds on Earth and as such they may be appreciated by long-term space travelers. The process of frying in…

Webb Observes Enceladus’ Water Vapor Plume

By News Staff June 2, 2023

As Enceladus orbits rapidly around Saturn with a period of only 1.37 Earth days, the ejected water vapor is spread along and around its orbit, forming a large torus around…

Watch First-Ever Livestream from Mars

By News Staff June 2, 2023

On June 2, 2023, to celebrate the 20th birthday of ESA’s Mars Express, you’ll have the chance to get as close as it’s currently possible get to a live view…

Iron-Rich Meteoritic and Volcanic Particles May Have Promoted Origin of Life Reactions on Early Earth

By Enrico de Lazaro May 26, 2023

Precursors of the molecules needed for the origin of life may have been generated by chemical reactions promoted by meteoritic and volcanic particles approximately 4.4 billion years ago, says a…

Almost One-Fifth of Academic Survey Respondents Witnessed Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Study

By News Staff May 23, 2023

Recently, former and current government officials, legislators, and faculty in the United States have called for research on what their government terms Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP, now called Unidentified Anomalous…

Saturn’s Rings are No More Than Few Hundred Million Years Old, Scientists Say

By News Staff May 16, 2023

Saturn’s ring system may well have formed when dinosaurs were still walking on the Earth, and will last only another few hundred million years at most, according to two new…

ESA’s Mars Express Orbiter Sees Fissured Flanks of Mars’ Second-Tallest Volcano

By Natali Anderson May 15, 2023

Ascraeus Mons is the northernmost and tallest of three prominent volcanoes found in the Tharsis region of Mars, a volcanic plateau in the planet’s western hemisphere. This image from ESA’s…

Four Uranian Moons Host Subsurface Oceans, New Research Suggests

By News Staff May 5, 2023

The five large moons of Uranus — Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon — are important targets for future spacecraft missions. Studying these bodies would help address the extent of…