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InSight’s Largest Marsquake Was Likely Caused by Geological Processes, Study Says

InSight’s Largest Marsquake Was Likely Caused by Geological Processes, Study Says

Posted by By News Staff October 18, 2023
During its time on Mars, NASA’s InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) lander recorded over 1,300 seismic events, known as marsquakes. Of these, a number were…
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Planetary Researchers Probe Origin of Complex Organics on Ceres

Planetary Researchers Probe Origin of Complex Organics on Ceres

Posted by By News Staff October 17, 2023
How aliphatic organic compounds originated on the dwarf planet Ceres has been the subject of intensive research since their discovery by NASA’s Dawn mission in 2017. Some studies have concluded…
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Sample Material from Asteroid Bennu Contains Carbon and Water, NASA Scientists Say

Sample Material from Asteroid Bennu Contains Carbon and Water, NASA Scientists Say

Posted by By News Staff October 11, 2023
The sample was collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security, Regolith Explorer) spacecraft on October 20, 2020 and arrived on Earth on September 24, 2023. A…
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Severe Space Weather Events Disrupt Nocturnal Bird Migrations, Researchers Find

Severe Space Weather Events Disrupt Nocturnal Bird Migrations, Researchers Find

Posted by By News Staff October 11, 2023
Earth’s magnetic field is occasionally but regularly impacted by bursts of energy from the Sun (space weather), such as coronal mass ejections. Birds and other animals depend on the geomagnetic…
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Extreme Solar Storm Hit Our Planet 14,300 Years Ago, Subfossil Tree-Rings Show

Extreme Solar Storm Hit Our Planet 14,300 Years Ago, Subfossil Tree-Rings Show

Posted by By News Staff October 9, 2023
In new research, scientists from the University of Leeds and elsewhere measured radiocarbon levels in ancient trees preserved within the eroded banks of the Drouzet River in the Southern French…
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Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth’s Large Mounds Have Common Origin, New Study Suggests

Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth’s Large Mounds Have Common Origin, New Study Suggests

Posted by By News Staff October 3, 2023
The 5-km-long mounds that dominate the appearance of the larger lobe of Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth are similar enough to suggest a common origin, according to new research. New…
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Saturn’s Rings May Have Formed Following Massive Collision between Two Moons, Scientists Say

Saturn’s Rings May Have Formed Following Massive Collision between Two Moons, Scientists Say

Posted by By News Staff October 3, 2023
Saturn’s rings could have evolved from the debris of two progenitor icy moons that collided and shattered a few hundred million years ago; debris that didn’t end up in the…
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Novel AI Technique Reveals Sample’s Biological or Non-Biological Origin with 90% Accuracy

Novel AI Technique Reveals Sample’s Biological or Non-Biological Origin with 90% Accuracy

Posted by By News Staff September 26, 2023
The search for definitive biosignatures — unambiguous markers of past or present life — is a central goal of paleobiology and astrobiology. A team of researchers led by the Carnegie…
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Sample Return Capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex Mission Lands Successfully in Utah

Sample Return Capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex Mission Lands Successfully in Utah

Posted by By News Staff September 25, 2023
OSIRIS-Rex’s capsule containing precious samples from the near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu landed safely in a targeted area of the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range near Salt Lake…
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Europa’s Carbon Dioxide Originates from Source within Its Subsurface Ocean, Planetary Scientists Say

Europa’s Carbon Dioxide Originates from Source within Its Subsurface Ocean, Planetary Scientists Say

Posted by By News Staff September 22, 2023
Jupiter’s icy moon Europa has an ocean beneath a crust of water ice. Solid carbon dioxide has previously been observed on the surface, but the source was unknown. Two teams…
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Cassini Reveals Surface Properties of Titan’s Hydrocarbon Seas

Saturn’s moon Titan was explored by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft from 2004 to 2017. While Cassini revealed a lot about this ...
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Ancient Mars was Cool and Relatively Wet, New Study Suggests

In a new study, planetary scientists found strong similarities between soils found in Gale Crater on Mars and those of ...
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