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Big impacts

New asteroid discoveries, big changes at NASA, and breathtaking views of Saturn.

Primordial mini-moons may explain meteorite composition

A new Southwest Research Institute-led study proposes a solution to a longstanding puzzle in planetary science: What caused the concentration, assembly, and preservation of millime...

Bizarre Venus surface formations puzzle planetary scientists

Bizarre Venus surface formations (or coronae) are likely key to understanding our twin planet's heretofore inscrutable interior. Using NASA Magellan spacecraft data from decades pa...

Quite the journey

A planet’s path around the Sun, a quasi-moon tagging along, and your name a million miles away.

Lava planet has hydrogen-rich, active atmosphere

It's 2158, and you're chugging away on your Ph.D. in planetary volcanology from the University of Utopia Planitia on Mars. Graduate students still get paid a sub-living wage, so yo...

An ocean of stars

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has kicked off an epic mission to map the Universe, including potentially dangerous asteroids.

Plans for Moon-Based Gravitational-Wave Detectors Get a Lift from Geology

Author(s): Michael SchirberA proposed gravitational-wave observatory on the Moon might gather more information than previously thought, thanks to geology.[Physics 19, s89] Publishe...

Analyzing avalanches on asteroid Vesta offers new method for understanding regolith processes

A study conducted at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris uses images from NASA's Dawn mission and a Bayesian inversion of the Hapke photometric model to analyze avalanches a...

Artículos en español

Una colección de artículos sobre investigación planetaria y exploración espacial en español.

That "Pink Planet" Astronomers Found Turns Out to be a Salty Customer!

Found in 2013, Pink Planet was too faint to study with ground-based telescopes. In new study, scientists used JWST and advanced processing methods to obtain its spectrum for the fi...

Nautilus array to track missing exoplanet atmospheres

Exoplanet atmospheres have become prime targets for astrobiologists in the search for life beyond Earth. This is because exoplanet surfaces can't be directly imaged yet, so astrono...

Nautilus Array to Track Missing Exoplanet Atmospheres

Exoplanet atmospheres have become prima targets for astrobiologists in the search for life beyond Earth. This is because exoplanet surfaces can’t be directly imaged yet, so astrono...

A Rare Meteorite Just Revealed a Lost, Mars-Sized Planet from the Dawn of the Solar System

Meteorites are (usually) gifts from the heavens. They provide unique insights to parts of the solar system that we couldn’t access otherwise - either because it's too expensive, or...

This Alien Planet Has Rock Clouds That Vaporize Before Sunset

JWST has revealed a surprising daily cloud cycle on a distant hot Jupiter, giving scientists a clearer look at its atmosphere. On WASP-94A b, the forecast changes fast. Clouds made...

Scientists get their best-ever look at distant planet’s surface

"The more we learn about these other planets, the better we understand the ingredients that make for stable, habitable planets."

Famous 'Pink Planet' harbors a salty surprise

Northwestern University-led astronomers have discovered salty skies surrounding the universe's famous "Pink Planet." For more than a decade, the ancient, rosy-hazed world kept astr...

Taking a Spin Around our Solar System

Planetaria are model objects that display stars, planets, or other celestial bodies and their movement. This blog post explores the different kinds of planetaria in the Geography a...

Sunrise III data release opens rare high-altitude solar views that could sharpen space weather forecasts

Close to 100 scientists from all over Europe, the United States, and Japan are gathering this week at the Institute for Solar Physics (KIS) in Freiburg to present and discuss the f...

Lava planet has hydrogen-rich, active atmosphere

It’s 2158, and you’re chugging away on your PhD in Planetary Volcanology from the University of Utopia Planitia on Mars. Graduate students still get paid a sub-living wage, so you’...

Mineral clues in Gale Crater track ancient Mars climate change

While NASA imagery has shown evidence of ancient rivers and lakes on Mars that transitioned to dry dunes, uncertainty remains over the timing of the environmental changes that may...

Rare meteorite provides evidence of giant early planet

Four-and-a-half billion years ago, a massive world—possibly as big as the moon or even Mars—orbited our sun before crashing into another celestial body and shattering into rubble....

NASA Study Challenges Theories on Where the Ingredients for Life Came From

NASA-supported scientists have provided new information about how the early Earth may have acquired some elements necessary for the planet to become habitable. They also suggest a...