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

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…

High-Energy Electrons from Earth’s Plasma Sheet May Be Forming Water on Lunar Surface

By News Staff September 18, 2023

Planetary scientists from the University of Hawaii and elsewhere suggest that although they have confirmed the importance of the solar wind as a major source of water production on the…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Webb Observes Enceladus’ Water Vapor Plume

By News Staff June 2, 2023

As Enceladus orbits rapidly around Saturn with a period of only 1.37 Earth days, the ejected water vapor is spread along and around its orbit, forming a large torus around…

Four Uranian Moons Host Subsurface Oceans, New Research Suggests

By News Staff May 5, 2023

The five large moons of Uranus — Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon — are important targets for future spacecraft missions. Studying these bodies would help address the extent of…

Vikings Abandoned Southwest Greenland Due in Part to Sea-Level Rise, New Research Suggests

By News Staff April 18, 2023

The first records of Greenland Vikings date to 985 CE. Archaeological evidence yields insight into how they lived, yet drivers of their disappearance in the 15th century remain enigmatic. Hypotheses…

Impact Glass Beads from the Moon Contain Solar Wind-Derived Water, Study Shows

By News Staff March 29, 2023

Scientists from China and the United States have analyzed the impact glass beads from a lunar soil sample returned by China’s Chang’e-5 mission. Asteroid and comet impacts are the major…