Recent research on lava worlds, exoplanets with magma oceans, reveals their unique structures and potential to retain vital elements. Future studies should emphasize terrestrial parameters…
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Supercomputer simulations suggest that Saturn’s rings might have originated from a massive collision between two icy moons during the age of dinosaurs. Collaborative research by…
Members of the VERITAS science team descend a slope to new rock formed from a recent flow of lava during their Iceland field campaign in…
3-Billion-Year-Old Secrets: NASA’s Curiosity Rover Reaches Mars Ridge Where Water Left Debris Pileup
3-Billion-Year-Old Secrets: NASA’s Curiosity Rover Reaches Mars Ridge Where Water Left Debris Pileup
NASA’s Curiosity captured this 360-degree panorama while parked below Gediz Vallis Ridge (seen at right), a formation that preserves a record of one of the…
Image of the Terra Sirenum and its gullies captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/JPL/Univ.…
Credit: Science: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) Webb’s Infrared Image Highlights the Planet’s Dramatic Rings and Dynamic Atmosphere The planet UranusUranus…
An artist’s conceptual rendering of interactions between an exoplanet and its star. Plasma emitted from the star is deflected by the exoplanet’s magnetic field. That…
A veteran astronomer has discovered that Saturn’s vast ring system is heating the planet’s upper atmosphere, a phenomenon never before observed in our solar system.…
Maat Mons is displayed in this computer-generated, three-dimensional perspective of the surface of Venus. The viewpoint is located 634 kilometers (393 miles) north of Maat…
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have discovered that the atmosphere of exoplanet HD149026b is super-abundant in the heavier elements carbon and oxygen –…
Artist impression of an exoplanet system. Credit: ESA Imagine a gaseous exoplanetAn exoplanet (or extrasolar planet) is a planet that is located outside our Solar…
This view of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa was captured by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during the mission’s close flyby on September 29,…
Image depicts divergent evolutionary pathways of Earth and Venus after formation. Credit: O’Rourke, J.G., Wilson, C.F., Borrelli, M.E. et al. Study Narrows James Webb Space…
Some exoplanets have one side permanently facing their star while the other side is in perpetual darkness. The ring-shaped border between these permanent day and…
This computer-generated 3D model of Venus’ surface shows the summit of Maat Mons, the volcano that is exhibiting signs of activity. A new study found…
This solar system montage of the nine planets and four large moons of Jupiter in our solar system are set against a false-color view of…
DAVINCI will send a meter-diameter probe to brave the high temperatures and pressures near Venus’ surface to explore the atmosphere from above the clouds to…
Artist impression of the four classes of planetary system architecture. A new architecture framework allows researchers to study an entire planetary system at the systems…
This illustration of the large Quetzalpetlatl Corona located in Venus’ southern hemisphere depicts active volcanism and a subduction zone, where the foreground crust plunges into…
Artist’s rendition of oxygen, sodium, and potassium aurorae as Io enters Jupiter’s shadow. Credit: Chris Faust Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in…