Microwave brightness temperature on top of visible reflectance for Hurricane Harvey before its landfall in Texas. Credit: Penn State In 2017, Hurricane Harvey stalled after…
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Hot and cold beneath Tonga volcano. Credit: © Planetary Visions (ESA/Planetary Visions) The astonishing force of the Tonga volcanic eruption shocked the world, but the…
Study provides new perspective on Washington state’s Channeled Scablands, carved by the Missoula megafloods at the end of the last ice age. As ice sheets…
Ultra-Low Velocity Zones sit between the Earth’s outer core and lower mantle. Researchers have uncovered the most detail ever of the mysterious structures laying between…
Jupiter’s southern hemisphere is shown in this image from NASA’s Juno mission. New observations by NASA’s NuSTAR reveal that auroras near both the planet’s poles…
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Sophisticated analysis of a rock sample taken from the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission nearly 50 years ago revealed…
Earth’s interior structure and superionic inner core. Credit: IGCAS Earth’s core, the deepest part of our planet, is characterized by extremely high pressure and temperature.…
Infrared image of Saturn showing an aurora at its southern pole, captured by the Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL/ASI/University of Arizona/University of Leicester Saturn’s high-altitude winds…
Composite image of two different Hubble observations. The aurorae were photographed during a series of Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph far-ultraviolet-light observations taking place as…
“Megaripples” are distinct wind-driven bedforms that occur on the surface of Earth and Mars. Here, megaripples are shown at the bottom of center adjacent to…
An SwRI scientist studied the antifreeze properties of exotic salts that exist on Mars, which could allow brines to remain liquid down to -103 degrees…
Researchers from Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo find that the occurrence of red snow is closely tied to the length of the…
A view of Mars’ south pole. Research led by The University of Texas at Austin found that a 2018 discovery of liquid water under the…
A selfie taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover on Sol 2291 at the “Rock Hall” drill site, located on Vera Rubin Ridge. Reduced carbon released…
An artist’s conception of the cross section of a super-Earth with the NIF target chamber superimposed over the mantle, looking into the core. Credit: Image…
Researchers at ETH Zurich have demonstrated in the lab how well a mineral common at the boundary between the Earth’s core and mantle conducts heat.…
Moon phases. A new study reveals how the diminutive Moon could have been an occasional magnetic powerhouse early in its history, a question that has…
Magma ocean artist’s concept. Scientists have shown how the freezing of a ‘slushy’ ocean of magma may be responsible for the composition of the Moon’s…
The findings suggest current theories of how some volcanoes form may be too simple. The hotspots that created volcanic islands such as those of Hawaii,…
Illustration of the Milky Way seen from Earth where supernova accelerates cosmic rays to high energies. Some of these cosmic ray particles enterers the Earth’s…