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Pluto’s Subsurface Ocean is 8% Denser than Seawater on Earth, Study Suggests

By News Staff May 21, 2024

Planetary researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and the Lunar and Planetary Institute have used mathematical models and unprecedented high-resolution images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft to take a…

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

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…

‘Magic Islands’ on Titan’s Hydrocarbon Lakes Are Floating Chunks of Porous Organic Solids

By Enrico de Lazaro January 8, 2024

Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, has a unique atmosphere that transforms simple gases like methane and nitrogen into more complex organic compounds. In a new study, planetary researchers at…

Venus May Have Once Had Earth-Like Plate Tectonics

By News Staff October 26, 2023

Venus is the least understood of the terrestrial planets. Despite broad similarities to the Earth in mass and size, Venus has no evidence of plate tectonics recorded on its young…

Researchers Find Extraterrestrial Noble Gases in Asteroid Ryugu Sample

By Sergio Prostak November 3, 2022

The sample of material delivered to our planet from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu contained a mixture of extraterrestrial (helium and neon) and terrestrial atmospheric gases, according to new research led…

Pluto’s Subsurface Ocean is 8% Denser than Seawater on Earth, Study Suggests

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

‘Magic Islands’ on Titan’s Hydrocarbon Lakes Are Floating Chunks of Porous Organic Solids

Venus May Have Once Had Earth-Like Plate Tectonics

Researchers Find Extraterrestrial Noble Gases in Asteroid Ryugu Sample

Astronomers Propose New Definition of Planet

Cassini Reveals Surface Properties of Titan’s Hydrocarbon Seas