Saturn’s hexagon: An amazing phenomenon
In 1980 and 1981 NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 space probes passed for the first time over the planet Saturn, located 1,500 million km from … Read more
Planetary science
Mount Hood study suggests volcano eruptibility is rare
Forecasts of when a volcano is ready to erupt could be a little closer thanks to work by geologists at the University of California, Davis, … Read more
An extinction in the blink of an eye
MIT researchers find that the end-Permian extinction happened in 60,000 years — much faster than earlier estimates. The largest mass extinction in the history of … Read more
New technique measures mass of exoplanets
To date, scientists have confirmed the existence of more than 900 exoplanets circulating outside our solar system. To determine if any of these far-off worlds … Read more
For the good of the colony: Bacterial community success depends on its shape
For some microbes, the motto for growth is not so much “every cell for itself,” but rather, “all for one and one for all.” MIT … Read more
Scientists generate first map of clouds on an exoplanet
On the exoplanet Kepler 7b, the weather is highly predictable, an international team of scientists has found: On any given day, the exoplanet, which orbits … Read more
NASA Wants Investigations for a Mars 2020 Rover
NASA has released its announcement of an open competition for the planetary community to submit proposals for the science and exploration technology instruments that would … Read more
