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Early Mars Had a Sustained, Cyclic, Possibly Seasonal, Climate

By News Staff August 10, 2023

New observations of mud cracks made by NASA’s Curiosity rover show that high-frequency, wet-dry cycling occurred in early Martian surface environments, indicating that the Red Planet may have once seen…

Mars is Spinning Faster, Planetary Researchers Say

By News Staff August 9, 2023

To track the Red Planet’s spin rate, planetary scientists relied on the Rotation and Interior Structure Experiment (RISE) onboard NASA’s InSight lander. They found the planet’s rotation is accelerating by…

Webb Detects Hydrogen Peroxide on Ganymede

By News Staff July 30, 2023

Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is the only satellite in the Solar System known to have an intrinsic magnetic field. Interactions between this field and the magnetosphere of Jupiter are expected to…

Perseverance Finds Diverse Organic Molecules in Jezero Crater

By News Staff July 12, 2023

The Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) instrument onboard NASA’s Perseverance rover has detected several species of aromatic organic molecules in the Máaz and…

Martian Gullies Could Have Been Formed by On-And-Off Periods of Liquid Meltwater

By News Staff July 4, 2023

Some steep slopes on Mars have gullies with morphologies suggesting that they were formed by a liquid. However, the planet’s current climate is not conducive to the melting of water…

ESA’s Euclid Mission Launches to Explore Dark Matter and Energy

By News Staff July 3, 2023

The Euclid spacecraft, built and operated by ESA, with contributions from NASA, lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 11:12 a.m. EDT (17:12 CEST) on July…

MAVEN Observes Mars in Ultraviolet Light

By News Staff June 22, 2023

Planetary scientists using the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) instrument onboard NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft have captured two amazing images of the Red Planet. By viewing the…

New Research Sheds More Light on Evolution of Europa’s Interior

By News Staff June 19, 2023

Many planetary scientists studying Jupiter’s moon Europa assumed that it formed with a metallic core during or shortly after accretion. New research from Arizona State University contradicts that prediction, instead…

Phosphorus, Rare Building Block for Life, Discovered at Enceladus

By News Staff June 15, 2023

Phosphorus has not previously been detected in oceans beyond those on Earth and this discovery provides a promising step forward in our understanding of ocean worlds. Saturn’s moon Enceladus with…

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,…