One Asteroid Collision May Have Rocked Earth, Mars, and the Moon
A Southwest Research Institute-led study has connected a specific asteroid collision in the main belt to an inner-solar-system-wide…
NASA Study Finds Near-Earth Asteroid Is Actually Comet
New research led by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has revealed the identity of…
Pluto’s moon Charon may have once spun once every 14 hours, and its ancient mountains still record how it slowed down |
For decades, Charon was often viewed as the quieter half of the Pluto system, a frozen world marked…
Meteorite that crashed in New Jersey may hold clues to how life began | National
Scientists discovered that this bit of the Hillsborough meteorite is rich in salts and came from near the…
Study warns solar storm risks may be much worse than thought | Features
Illustration of solar wind streaming from a fuming sun drives auroras bright enough to be seen far from…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Reads Record of Ancient Mars Impacts
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has uncovered evidence that a 245-foot-thick (75-meter-thick) stack of ancient rock on the rim…
Saturn’s Largest Moon May Hold the Resources for a Space Colony
Artist’s rendering of Titan’s interior, with the Cassini spacecraft in orbit and Saturn in the distance. Credit: NASA…
AI can quickly spot and catalog lunar craters, but accuracy remains a major problem
The Moon’s cratered surface may seem like the perfect place to hand repetitive work to machines. There are…
Both Pluto and Titan Share a Mystery Molecule That’s Never Been Seen Before
Every element has a unique set of absorption and emission lines that create spectral signatures. These signals are…
James Webb Uncovers the Atmosphere of a Hellish Lava World 41 Light-Years Away
Artist’s illustration of lava exoplanet CoRoT-7 b. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada JWST data suggest 55 Cancri e may be…
Titan, Saturn’s Largest Moon, Could Become a ‘Gas Station’ for Deep Space Missions
Credit: ZME Science. What if I told you there is a moon in the solar system whose fossil…
NASA signs $590M in moon deals; total program cost unknown | News
(The Center Square) – NASA awarded $590.4 million in new Moon Base lander contracts Tuesday, but the agency…