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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…

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…

Freshwater Appeared on Earth About 4 Billion Years Ago, Study Suggests

By Natali Anderson June 4, 2024

Analyzing 4-billion-year-old zircon crystals from the Jack Hills in Western Australia’s Mid West region, geoscientists have pushed back the timeline for the emergence of freshwater to just a few hundred…

Mars Drives Deep-Ocean Circulation in Earth’s Oceans, Study Suggests

By News Staff March 13, 2024

Geoscientists from Australia and France have used the geological record of Earth’s deep oceans to discover a connection between the orbits of our home planet and Mars. They’ve discovered a…

NASA Scientists Unveil Design for Europa Clipper’s ‘Golden Record’

By News Staff March 12, 2024

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will carry a triangular metal plate with a special message when it launches in October 2024 and heads toward Jupiter’s moon Europa. This side of a…

Earth’s Moon is Shrinking, New Modeling Study Suggests

By News Staff January 29, 2024

Earth’s Moon shrank more than 46 m (150 feet) in circumference as its core gradually cooled over the last few hundred million years, according to a paper published in the…

Scientists Solve Major Puzzle in Moon’s Geology

By News Staff January 15, 2024

New research from the University of Bristol sheds light on the origin of titanium-rich basaltic magmas on the Moon. A map of the titanium abundances of the Moon’s surface, obtained…

Lunar Anthropocene: Are We in New Epoch of Moon’s History?

By Natali Anderson December 11, 2023

In a paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience, Kansas Geological Survey researcher Justin Holcomb and his colleagues argue the new epoch may have dawned in 1959, thanks to the…

ESA Astronaut Captures Stunning Images of Rare Thunder Phenomenon

By News Staff December 1, 2023

As part of the Thor-Davis experiment on the International Space Station (ISS), ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen has captured images of a phenomenon called red sprite. Equipped with a specialized event-based…

Two Fragments of Protoplanet Theia Lie Deep within Earth, Geoscientists Say

By Enrico de Lazaro November 1, 2023

A giant collision between the ancient protoplanet Theia and the proto-Earth about 4.5 billion years ago may have formed Earth’s Moon as well as two continent-sized regions — formally known…