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March 18, 2024
NASA Armstrong Updates 1960s Concept to Study Giant Planets

Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Mar 14, 2024
NASA researchers are looking at the possibility of using a wingless, unpowered aircraft design from the 1960s to gather atmospheric data on other planets - doing the same work as small satellites but potentially better and more economically. John Bodylski, a principal investigator at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, hypothesized a lifting body aircraft design NASA tested decades ago could meet the requirements for an atmospheric probe that can collect measurements of ... read more
Unlocking the Secrets of Eternal Ice in the Kuiper Belt
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 15, 2024
Innovative research published in Icarus unveils the enduring nature of volatile substances such as carbon monoxide (CO) within Kuiper Belt Object 486958 Arrokoth, offering new insights into the long ... more
NASA's New Horizons Detects Dusty Hints of Extended Kuiper Belt
Laurel MD (SPX) Feb 27, 2024
Speeding through the outer edges of the Kuiper Belt, almost 60 times farther from the Sun than Earth, the New Horizons Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter (SDC) instrument is detecting higher than e ... more
New moons of Uranus and Neptune announced
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 27, 2024
The Solar System has some new lunar members-the first new moon of Uranus discovered in more than 20 years, and likely the smallest, as well as two new moons of Neptune, one of which is the faintest ... more
NASA's Europa Jupiter Mission will be packed with humanity's messages
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 8, 2024
NASA said Friday the Europa Clipper Jupiter mission set to launch in October will carry profound messages from humanity as it gathers scientific data to determine if there are life-supporting conditions. ... more
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UCF scientists use James Webb Space Telescope to uncover clues about Neptune's evolution
Orlando FL (SPX) Mar 07, 2024
A ring of icy rocks orbiting our sun just beyond Neptune may give us a glimpse of how Neptune - and other objects in the outskirts of our solar system - were formed. Mors-Somnus, a binary duo ... more
NASA's Juno Mission Measures Oxygen Production at Europa
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 05, 2024
Scientists with NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter have calculated the rate of oxygen being produced at the Jovian moon Europa to be substantially less than most previous studies. Published on March 4 i ... more
Solved at Pitt: What are Saturn's rings made of?
Philadelphia PA (SPX) Mar 05, 2024
On a given night, the Allegheny Observatory might be hosting an open house, a lecture given by astronomy experts, educational programs for kids or tours set aside specifically for teachers and their ... more
NASA invites public to dive into Juno's Spectacular Images of Io
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 12, 2024
NASA's Juno spacecraft has once again set the bar high by delivering the closest and most detailed images of Jupiter's moon Io in over two decades. The spacecraft, which has been orbiting the larges ... more
Europa Clipper gears up with full instrument suite onboard
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 01, 2024
NASA's ambitious Europa Clipper mission, a project that aims to unravel the mysteries of Jupiter's ice-encased moon, Europa, has recently achieved a significant milestone. With less than nine months ... more
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New images reveal what Neptune and Uranus really look like
London, UK (SPX) Jan 08, 2024
Neptune is fondly known for being a rich blue and Uranus green - but a new study has revealed that the two ice giants are actually far closer in colour than typically thought. The correct shad ... more
Researchers reveal true colors of Neptune, Uranus
Washington DC (UPI) Jan 5, 2024
The true colors of Uranus and Neptune are different than what has been commonly portrayed, according to new research from the Royal Astronomical Society released Friday. ... more
The PI's Perspective: The Long Game
Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 21, 2023
New Horizons is healthy and speeding across the Kuiper Belt at a distance of over 5.5 billion miles from Earth! The spacecraft is collecting round-the-clock data on our Sun's cocoon in the gal ... more
Webb rings in the holidays with the ringed planet Uranus
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 19, 2023
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope recently trained its sights on weird and enigmatic Uranus, an ice giant that orbits on its side. What Webb found is a dynamic world with rings, moons, sto ... more
Unwrapping Uranus and its icy moon secrets
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Nov 30, 2023
Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, orbits in the outer solar system, about two billion miles (3.2 billion kilometers) from Earth. It is an enormous world - quadruple the diameter of Earth, wit ... more
Juice burns hard towards first-ever Earth-Moon flyby

Paris (ESA) Nov 17, 2023
ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) launched from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana on 14 April 2023. It's on a mission to make detailed observations of the giant gas planet and its three large, ocean-bearing moons - Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. But Juice won't begin its investigations into the nature and possible habitability of the Jupiter system until its arrival in 2031. Why does it take so long to get to Jupiter? Well, the short answer is that its less to do with the dist ... read more
Fall into an ice giant's atmosphere
Paris (ESA) Nov 16, 2023
The unique atmospheric compositions of 'ice giant' planets Uranus and Neptune were recreated to simulate a plunge deep within them, using suitably adapted European shocktubes and plasma facilities. ... more

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Juno finds Jupiter's winds penetrate in cylindrical layers
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 10, 2023
Gravity data collected by NASA's Juno mission indicates Jupiter's atmospheric winds penetrate the planet in a cylindrical manner, parallel to its spin axis. A paper on the findings was recently publ ... more
New jet stream discovered in Jupiter's upper atmosphere
Bilbo, Spain (SPX) Oct 31, 2023
High-speed jet streams are a common feature in the atmospheres of many planets. On the Earth, jet streams form at various latitudes and meander around the planet, changing latitude and reaching spee ... more
Salts and organics observed on Ganymede's surface by June
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 31, 2023
Data collected by NASA's Juno mission indicates a briny past may be bubbling to the surface on Jupiter's largest moon. NASA's Juno mission has observed mineral salts and organic compounds on the sur ... more
Uranus aurora discovery offers clues to habitable icy worlds
Leicester UK (SPX) Oct 30, 2023
The presence of an infrared aurora on the cold, outer planet of Uranus has been confirmed for the first time by University of Leicester astronomers. The discovery could shed light on the myste ... more
How NASA is protecting Europa Clipper from space radiation
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 25, 2023
To explore the mysterious ice-encrusted moon Europa, the mission will need to endure bombardment by radiation and high-energy particles surrounding Jupiter. When NASA's Europa Clipper begins o ... more
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