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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…

Ancient Mars May Have Had Hydrothermal Systems

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…

SOFIA Detects Molecular Water on Nominally Dry Asteroids

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…

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

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…

Mars Express Finds New Evidence for Ice-Rich Layered Deposits in Medusae Fossae

By News Staff January 22, 2024

Over 15 years ago, ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft studied the Medusae Fossae Formation, revealing enigmatic deposits up to 2.5 km deep. From those early observations, it was unclear what the…

Scientists Recreate Extraterrestrial Atmospheric Hazes in the Lab

By News Staff November 27, 2023

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has begun its scientific mission, which includes the atmospheric characterization of transiting exoplanets. Some of the first exoplanets to be observed by Webb have…

Ancient Mars was Planet of Rivers, Planetary Scientists Say

By News Staff October 25, 2023

Ancient river deposits exist across Mars and can be identified in satellite data by erosional landforms called fluvial ridges. Fluvial ridges take the shape of ancient river deposits, and are…

Planetary Researchers Probe Origin of Complex Organics on Ceres

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…