Mystery Ozone Surge Discovered in Mars’s Winter Darkness
A view of the north pole of Mars, created by taking images as seen by the European Space…
A Giant Asteroid Struck Australia 11 Million Years Ago. So Where Is the Crater?
Scientists have discovered a new field of rare glass fragments in Australia, created by a massive asteroid impact…
New Research Identifies Moonquake Dangers That Could Threaten Future Lunar Missions
New research suggests that subtle tremors beneath the lunar surface, not meteor strikes, may be responsible for reshaping…
An Asteroid’s Billion-Year-Old Secret Is a “Genuine Surprise” to Scientists
Asteroid Ryugu’s samples reveal that liquid water persisted on its parent body for over a billion years, reshaping…
A Soft Collision in the Early Solar System May Explain Mercury’s Giant Metal Heart
In the crowded early Solar System, young planets frequently collided and reshaped each other. But Mercury stood out.…
Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries monitors a world out of balance
This section summarizes how we select and analyse social indicators with respect to minimum social standards in the…
“Very Strange” – Saturn’s Moon Titan Is Behaving Unusually
Purple haze around Titan – A false-color image of Titan captured in 2004 by the Cassini spacecraft. The…
Scientists Discover the Hidden Ingredient That Helped Form Earth’s Inner Core
Cartoon of the Earth with cutaway showing the mantle and inner and outer core. Magnetic field lines produced…
Europe plans to send life-searching probe to Saturn’s icy moon
The European Space Agency (ESA) has set its sights on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus by announcing a new…
Help Map the Moon’s Molten Flows!
When asteroids hit the Moon, the impacts carve out craters and with enough energy and pressure, melt parts…
The Moon is rusting — thanks to ‘wind’ blown all the way from Earth
A stream of charged particles that blows from Earth (foreground) to the Moon could account for the rust…
Webb Telescope Detects Gas on Distant Dwarf Planet Makemake for the First Time
An SwRI-led team used Webb telescope observations (white) to detect methane gas on the distant dwarf planet Makemake.…