Liquid Nitrogen May Have Flowed on Pluto’s Surface in Recent Past
Planetary researchers analyzing images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft have found evidence that liquid nitrogen may still be…
WHAT’S UP IN THE SKY: A look at the stars of Harry Potter | Astronomy
Today: One minor Harry Potter character actually has two well-known star names: Regulus Arcturus Black, the brother of…
Astronomers Discover First-Ever Three-Lobed Asteroid
High-resolution images from ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the Large Binocular Telescope reveal that the E-type asteroid (44)…
Pluto’s Thin Atmosphere May Be Starting to Shrink
Pluto’s tenuous atmosphere appears to have begun contracting after years of holding steady, according to a new study…
Chinese rocket scientists find ‘most effective’ way to nuke a doomsday asteroid
Chinese researchers believe they may have found the most effective way to destroy or deflect a large, Earth-threatening…
Rocks From the Moon’s Far Side Are Rewriting Lunar History
Moon rocks returned from a rarely sampled region are offering a new view of the Solar System’s turbulent…
Neptune’s moon system is bizarre. James Webb Space Telescope data helps explain why
Neptune has a very strange moon system. The farthest planet from the Sun in our Solar System has…
Europa’s Ice Shell May Be Tougher Barrier than Planetary Scientists Hoped
Europa’s subsurface ocean has long topped astrobiologists’ wish lists as a place to search for life beyond Earth.…
Giant Rift Valleys Hint Venus is Still Tectonically Active
New 3D computer simulations from ETH Zurich show that young rift flanks on Venus stay tall and steep,…
Juno’s Microwave Vision Peers beneath Surface of Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io
New data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft show temperatures spike more than 20 degrees Celsius just a few meters…
Saturn’s moon Titan has rivers, lakes and rainfall without a single drop of water, and scientists know why |
At first glance, Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, looks remarkably like Earth. Its surface is covered by winding rivers,…
Space Weather May Warp Martian Weather during Dust Storms, Planetary Scientists Suggest
Planetary researchers have found the first evidence that bursts of energetic particles from the Sun could warm the…