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a kitchen view onto the Martian landscape

Scientists Unlock Mars Mysteries with Kitchen Ingredients

Categories Physics & Mathematics, Space
ceres photo

Asteroid Ceres is a former ocean world that slowly formed into a giant, murky icy orb

Categories Space
A comparison of JunoCam data from April 2024 with imagery from the Galileo mission of the same area in November 1997 (greyscale insert) reveals a new volcanic feature on the surface of Jupiter’s moon, Io.

New Volcano Discovered on Jupiter’s Moon Io in First Close-Up Images in 25 Years

Categories Space
Kobe University researcher Naoyuki Hirata was the first to discover that an asteroid impact on Jupiter's moon Ganymede occurred almost exactly on the meridian farthest from Jupiter. This finding suggested that Ganymede had experienced a reorientation of its rotational axis, enabling Hirata to calculate the type of impact that could have caused this shift.

Ancient Asteroid Impact Shifted Jupiter’s Largest Moon

Categories Physics & Mathematics, Space
Magma ocean planets that contain water – like the earthlike exoplanet GJ 1214 b in this artist’s concept – will only host a tiny fraction of this water on their surface. The majority of it is stored deep in their interiors.

Planets Harbor More Water Than Previously Thought, Study Reveals

Categories Space
First meteoroid impact detected by NASA’s InSight mission; the image was taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera.

New class of Mars quakes reveals daily meteorite strikes

Categories Space
Illustrations by the 17th-century astronomer Cassini (a-c), compared with Jupiter's current Great Red Spot as captured by Eric Sussenbach in 2023.

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Formed Less Than 200 Years Ago, Study Suggests

Categories Space
The inner core began to decrease its speed around 2010, moving slower than the Earth’s surface.

Earth’s Inner Core Slows Its Spin, Surprising Scientists

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Physics & Mathematics, Space
Juliette Becker

Watery planets orbiting dead stars may be good candidates for studying life — if they can survive long enough

Categories Life & Non-humans, Space
This simulated perspective oblique view shows Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano not only on Mars but in the entire solar system. The volcano measures some 600 km across.

In a significant first, researchers detect water frost on solar system’s tallest volcanoes

Categories Space
Pre-existing models for the Ina irregular mare patch (A, C, D) compared to more detailed and sharper shape-from-shading models from the study (B, E).

New technique offers more precise maps of the Moon’s surface

Categories Physics & Mathematics, Space, Technology
Tracing the origins of organic matter in Martian sediments

Decoding Mars’ Organic Mysteries

Categories Life & Non-humans, Space
Volcanic exoplanet illustration.

NASA’s TESS Discovers Fiery, Lava-Covered Exoplanet in Distant Star System

Categories Space

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