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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…

Water Frost Deposits Spotted on Tropical Martian Volcanoes

By News Staff June 11, 2024

Using high-resolution color images from ESA’s Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and Mars Express missions, planetary researchers have found evidence for morning frost deposits on the calderas of the Tharsis volcanoes…

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…

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…

Cassini Observations Suggest Underground Ocean on Titan

By News Staff May 10, 2024

Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, harbors an internal low-density ocean of water or ammonia, according to an analysis of archival data from NASA’s Cassini mission. Representation of Cassini’s orbits…

New Study Explains Why Venus is Extremely Dry

By News Staff May 7, 2024

Despite its Earth-like size and source material, Venus is extremely dry, indicating near-total water loss to space. Using computer simulations, planetary scientists from the University of Colorado, Boulder and the…

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…

Europa Produces Less Oxygen than Previously Thought

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…