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Europa Produces Less Oxygen than Previously Thought

Europa Produces Less Oxygen than Previously Thought

Posted by By News Staff March 4, 2024
Using data from the Jovian Auroral Distributions Experiment (JADE) instrument onboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft, planetary scientists have calculated the rate of oxygen being produced at Jupiter’s icy moon Europa to…
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Asteroid Moonlet Dimorphos May Have Been Reshaped Following Impact from NASA’s DART Mission

Asteroid Moonlet Dimorphos May Have Been Reshaped Following Impact from NASA’s DART Mission

Posted by By News Staff February 29, 2024
On September 26, 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission successfully impacted Dimorphos, the natural satellite of the binary near-Earth asteroid Didymos. New numerical simulations indicate that the DART…
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Ancient Mars May Have Had Hydrothermal Systems

Ancient Mars May Have Had Hydrothermal Systems

Posted by By News Staff February 22, 2024
The history of water on Mars is a puzzle that is of interest to planetary scientists as well as the general public. The Red Planet currently has water in the…
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Kuiper Belt May Be Much Larger than Previously Estimated

Kuiper Belt May Be Much Larger than Previously Estimated

Posted by By News Staff February 20, 2024
Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) are thought to be the dominant source of interplanetary dust particles in the outer Solar System due to both collisions between KBOs and their continual bombardment…
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Webb Finds Evidence of Hydrothermal Processes in Interiors of Eris and Makemake

Webb Finds Evidence of Hydrothermal Processes in Interiors of Eris and Makemake

Posted by By News Staff February 15, 2024
The icy dwarf planets Eris and Makemake have surfaces bearing methane ice of unknown origin. According to an analysis of data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, Eris and…
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SOFIA Detects Molecular Water on Nominally Dry Asteroids

SOFIA Detects Molecular Water on Nominally Dry Asteroids

Posted by By News Staff February 13, 2024
Using the FORCAST instrument on NASA’s retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), astronomers have obtained mid-infrared spectra of four S-type (silicate-rich) asteroids: Iris, Parthenope, Melpomene, and Massalia. They’ve detected…
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Early Mars was Tectonically and Volcanically Active, Study Suggests

Early Mars was Tectonically and Volcanically Active, Study Suggests

Posted by By News Staff February 12, 2024
The relatively well-preserved ancient crust of Mars provides a natural window into early planetary evolution not available on Earth. Mars has generally been considered a one-plate basaltic planet, though recent…
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NASA’s Juno Orbiter Captures Stunning Images of Jupiter’s Moon Io

NASA’s Juno Orbiter Captures Stunning Images of Jupiter’s Moon Io

Posted by By Natali Anderson February 9, 2024
On February 3, 2024, NASA’s Juno spacecraft made a second close flyby of Io, the fifth of Jupiter’s moons and the third largest. Like the previous flyby on December 30,…
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Saturn’s Moon Mimas Harbors Global Ocean beneath Its Icy Shell, Study Suggests

Saturn’s Moon Mimas Harbors Global Ocean beneath Its Icy Shell, Study Suggests

Posted by By News Staff February 7, 2024
From detailed analysis of Mimas’ orbital motion based on data from NASA’s Cassini mission, planetary researchers from Sorbonne Université, Nantes Université, Queen Mary University of London, Université de Franche-Comté and…
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Earth’s Moon is Shrinking, New Modeling Study Suggests

Earth’s Moon is Shrinking, New Modeling Study Suggests

Posted by 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…
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Cassini Reveals Surface Properties of Titan’s Hydrocarbon Seas

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