Voyager 1 is conducting science operations for the first time following a technical issue that arose in November 2023. The post NASA Returns Voyager 1 Spacecraft to Normal Science Operations a...
https://www.sci.news/space/voyager-1-science-operations-13019.html
Planetary researchers have found evidence for morning frost deposits on the calderas of the Tharsis volcanoes on Mars: Olympus, Arsia and Ascraeus Montes, and Ceraunius Tholus. The post Water F...
https://www.sci.news/space/water-frost-tropical-martian-volcanoes-13006.html
Planetary scientists first made the connection between Earth and Jupiter in 2018 when they noticed a striking similarity between images of Jupiter’s huge cyclones and the ocean turbulence. Th...
https://www.sci.news/space/jupiters-polar-cyclones-13003.html
The Negative Ions at the Lunar Surface (NILS) instrument onboard China’s Chang’e-6 probe has detected negative ions on the surface of the Moon. The post NILS Detects Negative Ions on Lunar ...
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 fe...
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/geoscience/early-earth-freshwater-12987.html
Using radar data from NASA’s Magellan mission, planetary scientists have detected volcanic-related flow features in two different regions of Venus: on the western flank of Sif Mons and in weste...
https://www.sci.news/space/volcanically-active-venus-12969.html
Planetary researchers have used mathematical models and unprecedented high-resolution images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft to take a closer look at the subsurface ocean that likely lies b...
https://www.sci.news/space/plutos-subsurface-ocean-12954.html
NASA’s Juno orbiter captured these views of the tiny, red moon Amalthea and its parent planet and during a close flyby on March 7, 2024. The post Amalthea: Juno Captures Solar System’s Redd...
The dwarf planet Ceres hosts permanently shadowed areas in its polar regions, and these regions are an interesting analog to Mercury and the Moon. The post Planetary Scientists Create Map of Ce...
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. The post Cassini Observati...
Using computer simulations, planetary scientists found that hydrogen atoms in the planet’s atmosphere go whizzing into space through a process known as dissociative recombination. The post Ne...
In May 2017, NASA’s Curiosity rover observed higher than usual amounts of manganese in the lakebed rocks within Gale crater, Mars. The post Manganese-Rich Sandstones Point to Earth-Like Envir...
https://www.sci.news/space/manganese-rich-sandstones-earth-like-environment-ancient-mars-12903.html
ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft have spotted the telltale traces of ‘spiders’ scattered across the southern polar region of Mars. The post Mars Express Spots ‘Spiders’ at Outskirts of M...
https://www.sci.news/space/mars-express-martian-inca-city-spiders-12882.html
Sulfur and chlorine isotopes in Io’s atmosphere indicate that it has been volcanically active for the entire 4.57 billion-year history of the Solar System. The post Study: Jupiter’s Moon Io...
https://www.sci.news/astronomy/volcanically-active-io-12879.html
Enterobacter bugandensis is primarily found in clinical specimens including the human gastrointestinal tract. The post Biologists Find Mutated and Genetically Distinct Strains of Multi-Drug Res...
https://www.sci.news/biology/iss-enterobacter-bugandensis-12876.html
Fully understanding how a rocky planet becomes habitable and remains so is a fundamental challenge for planetary scientists and astrobiologists. The post Uninhabitable Venus Offers Lessons abou...
https://www.sci.news/astronomy/venus-anchor-point-planetary-habitability-12875.html
NASA’s Juno spacecraft made extremely close flybys of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io in December 2023 and February 2024, getting within about 1,500 km (930 miles) of the surface. The post NASA�...
Pluto’s surface is dominated by the huge, pear-shaped basin Sputnik Planitia, which appears to be of impact origin, but modeling has not yet explained its peculiar geometry. The post Planetar...
In August 2021, the ESA/JAXA Mercury-bound BepiColombo spacecraft performed its second flyby of Venus and provided a short-lived observation of its induced magnetosphere. The post BepiColombo D...
https://www.sci.news/space/bepicolombo-oxygen-carbon-ions-magnetosphere-venus-12856.html
A duo of planetary scientists has found that the Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth may have ancient ices stored deep within it from when the object first formed billions of years ago. The po...
https://www.sci.news/space/arrokoth-kuiper-belt-objects-pristine-ices-12816.html