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Cassini Reveals Surface Properties of Titan’s Hydrocarbon Seas

By News Staff July 16, 2024

Saturn’s moon Titan was explored by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft from 2004 to 2017. While Cassini revealed a lot about this Earth-like world, its radar observations could only provide limited information…

Ancient Mars was Cool and Relatively Wet, New Study Suggests

By News Staff July 11, 2024

In a new study, planetary scientists found strong similarities between soils found in Gale Crater on Mars and those of Canada’s Newfoundland, a cold subarctic climate. X-ray amorphous material comprises…

Scientists Revise Famous Drake Equation

By News Staff July 2, 2024

Within the uncertainties of involved astronomical and biological parameters, the Drake equation typically predicts that there should be many exoplanets (< 100 to millions) in our Milky Way Galaxy hosting active,…

Mars is Bombarded by Meteoroids At More Frequent Rates than Previously Thought

By News Staff June 28, 2024

Current impact rates at Mars could be 2-10 times higher than previously estimated, depending on the size of the meteoroids, according to new research. Mars; the center of the scene…

Juno Spots ‘Hot Rings’ on Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io

By News Staff June 27, 2024

These bright (hot) ‘thermal rings’ are a common phenomenon, and they are indicative of active lava lakes, according to a new analysis of data from the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper…

Study: Active, Seafloor Hydrothermal Systems on Small Ocean Worlds Could Support Life

By News Staff June 25, 2024

Ocean worlds are planetary bodies that have a liquid ocean, often under an icy shell or within the rocky interior. In our own Solar System, several moons of Jupiter and…

Coastlines of Titan’s Largest Lakes and Seas Were Eroded by Wave Activity: Study

By News Staff June 19, 2024

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is the only known planetary body besides Earth on which standing liquids persist. Liquid hydrocarbons, supplied by rainfall from the moon’s thick atmosphere, form rivers, lakes,…

NASA Returns Voyager 1 Spacecraft to Normal Science Operations

By News Staff June 14, 2024

Voyager 1 is conducting science operations for the first time following a technical issue that arose in November 2023. Voyager 1 launched from Florida’s NASA Kennedy Space Center on September…

Water Frost Deposits Spotted on Tropical Martian Volcanoes

By News Staff June 11, 2024

Using high-resolution color images from ESA’s Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and Mars Express missions, planetary researchers have found evidence for morning frost deposits on the calderas of the Tharsis volcanoes…

Jupiter’s Polar Cyclones are Fueled by Processes Similar to Those Acting on Earth: Study

By News Staff June 10, 2024

Planetary scientists first made the connection between Earth and Jupiter in 2018 when they noticed a striking similarity between images of Jupiter’s huge cyclones and the ocean turbulence. In 2022,…

AMS Detector Reveals Surprising Surplus of Cosmic Rays Made of Deuterons

Study: Asteroid Psyche Originated beyond Solar System’s Snow Line and Later Migrated to Main Belt

ESA’s Trace Gas Orbiter Spots Chloride-Bearing Deposits on Mars

Mid-Crust of Mars May Contain ‘Oceans of Liquid Water’

‘Nanoparticle Warming’ Have Potential to Warm Mars, Planetary Scientists Say

Mars Once Hosted Lake Larger than Any on Earth: Lake Eridania

Flakes of Natural Graphene Found in Lunar Soil Samples

Curiosity Finds Pure Sulfur on Mars

Study: Biological Amino Acids Could Survive in Near-Surface Ices of Europa and Enceladus

Astronomers Propose New Definition of Planet

AMS Detector Reveals Surprising Surplus of Cosmic Rays Made of Deuterons

Study: Asteroid Psyche Originated beyond Solar System’s Snow Line and Later Migrated to Main Belt

Cassini Reveals Surface Properties of Titan’s Hydrocarbon Seas

Ancient Mars was Cool and Relatively Wet, New Study Suggests

Scientists Revise Famous Drake Equation

Mars is Bombarded by Meteoroids At More Frequent Rates than Previously Thought

Juno Spots ‘Hot Rings’ on Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io

Study: Active, Seafloor Hydrothermal Systems on Small Ocean Worlds Could Support Life

Coastlines of Titan’s Largest Lakes and Seas Were Eroded by Wave Activity: Study

NASA Returns Voyager 1 Spacecraft to Normal Science Operations

Water Frost Deposits Spotted on Tropical Martian Volcanoes

Jupiter’s Polar Cyclones are Fueled by Processes Similar to Those Acting on Earth: Study

AMS Detector Reveals Surprising Surplus of Cosmic Rays Made of Deuterons

Study: Asteroid Psyche Originated beyond Solar System’s Snow Line and Later Migrated to Main Belt