Southwest Research Institute scientists combined data from NASA’s New Horizons mission with novel laboratory experiments and exospheric modeling to reveal the likely composition of the…
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This artist’s conception shows how double ridges on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa may form over shallow, refreezing water pockets within the ice shell.…
What Does a Solar Eclipse Look Like on Mars? NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Captures “Amazing” Video
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to shoot video of Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons, eclipsing the Sun. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/SSI NASAEstablished in…
These three mosaics of Titan were composed with data from Cassini’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer taken during the last three Titan flybys, on October…
NASA’s Galileo spacecraft image of Jupiter’s moon Io, the planet’s third-largest moon. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Rutgers study shows new way dunes can form on…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to shoot video of Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons, eclipsing the Sun. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/SSI The Mastcam-Z…
This artist’s conception shows how double ridges on the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa may form over shallow, refreezing water pockets within the ice…
An artist’s interpretation of liquid water on the surface of the Europa pooling beneath chaos terrain. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech JupiterJupiter is the largest planet in the…
An artist’s interpretation of liquid water on the surface of the Europa pooling beneath chaos terrain. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Salt water within the icy shell of…
NASA’s Juno mission captured this view of Jupiter’s southern hemisphere during the spacecraft’s 39th close flyby of the planet on January 12, 2022. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS,…
Artist’s rendering of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Science instruments and other hardware for the spacecraft will come together in the mission’s final phase…
The discovery of a second exomoon candidate hints at the possibility that exomoons may be as common as exoplanets. Credit: Helena Valenzuela Widerström An exomoon…
Using a series of ‘real’ and ‘fake’ flybys, ESA’s Mars Express has clarified a long-standing martian mystery: if and how Mars’ largest moon, Phobos, reflects…
On the left is a view of Europa taken on March 2, 1979, by the Voyager 1 spacecraft. Next is a color image of Europa…
Old artistic impression of GQ Lupi B (front left) and the main star GQ Lupi (right). Credit: Devon1980, Wikimedia An international team of astronomers led…
Jupiter’s moon, Europa. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute Ice Sublimating Off the Surface Replenishes a Tenuous Envelope You would think that living half-a-billion miles from the Sun…
Artist impression of the MMX spacecraft descending to the surface of Phobos (based on the spacecraft design in FY2019). Credit: JAXA Dr. Ryuki Hyodo shares…
This image, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which ESO is a partner, shows wide (left) and close-up (right) views of the…
This composite image shows an infrared view of Saturn’s moon Titan from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA Titan, SaturnSaturn is the sixth planet from the…
Phobos imaged by HiRISE. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona Japan’s space agency (JAXAFormed in 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) was born through the merger…