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
On March 25, 2024, Hanjie Tan, an astronomy Ph.D. student in Prague, Czech Republic, spotted a comet in an image from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft. The post...
New research has implications for crew safety in space and could potentially give clues to how aging affects people’s balance systems here on Earth. The post Astronauts Have Surprising Abilit...
https://www.sci.news/space/astronaut-microgravity-perceived-traveled-distance-12803.html
Planetary scientists have created the 1:30000 scale geological map of Oxia Planum, the landing site for ESA’s ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission. The post Scientists Create High-Resoluti...
https://www.sci.news/space/oxia-planum-geological-map-12797.html
Planetary scientists have long speculated about the potential habitability of Venus, not at its hot surface, but in the cloud layers located at 48-60 km altitudes, where temperatures match thos...
https://www.sci.news/space/venus-clouds-habitability-12782.html
The tricarbon molecule (C3) is likely produced in the upper atmosphere of Titan by the reaction of abundant acetylene with atomic carbon. The post Tricarbon Molecule Detected in Atmosphere of T...
https://www.sci.news/astronomy/tricarbon-molecule-titan-12772.html
Provisionally designated Noctis Mons, the newly-discovered volcano is located just south of Mars’ equator, in Eastern Noctis Labyrinthus. The post Planetary Scientists Discover Giant Shield V...
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. The post Mars Drives De...
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/geoscience/mars-deep-ocean-circulation-earths-oceans-12761.html
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. The post NASA Scientists...
https://www.sci.news/space/europa-clipper-golden-record-12757.html
Using data from NASA’s Juno mission, planetary scientists have calculated the rate of oxygen being produced at Jupiter’s icy moon Europa to be substantially less than most previous studies. ...
https://www.sci.news/space/europa-oxygen-production-12736.html
New images from the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft show the terrain surrounding the permanent north polar ice cap of Mars. The post Mars Express Spots S...
https://www.sci.news/space/mars-express-sand-dunes-ice-layers-martian-north-pole-12732.html
Sightings of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), formerly known as unidentified flying objects (UFOs), have been reported throughout history. The post Study: Most Sightings of UAPs Occur in...
https://www.sci.news/space/american-uap-sightings-12731.html
On September 26, 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission successfully impacted Dimorphos, the natural satellite of the binary near-Earth asteroid Didymos. The post Astero...
https://www.sci.news/astronomy/reshaped-dimorphos-12726.html