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Probing liquid water beyond Earth with advanced radar technology
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Apr 22, 2024 Liquid water is a primary indicator of potential life on other planets. Key celestial bodies within our solar system, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moons Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto, are believed to contain oceans beneath their icy exteriors. This concept extends to certain exoplanets where conditions may also support liquid water, a crucial component for sustaining life. Detecting water on these distant planets and moons is a formidable challenge, given our inability to access them d ... read more |
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Juno mission reveals volcanic landscapes on IoLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 22, 2024 NASA's Juno spacecraft has provided new insights into Io, one of Jupiter's moons, through detailed animations derived from recent flybys. These visuals spotlight a towering mountain and a vast lake ... more 
Dating the Solar System's orbital changes with enstatite meteoritesLondon, UK (SPX) Apr 17, 2024 New research pinpoints the timeline of the Solar System's giant planets moving into their current orbits, showing these changes occurred between 60-100 million years after the Solar System formed. T ... more 
Pluto's heart-shaped feature explained by international research teamBerlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 16, 2024 An international team led by the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has uncovered the origin of Pluto's distinctive heart-shaped surface feature, Spu ... more 
Assessing the ages of moons from impact cratersLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 15, 2024 Our solar system's giant planets-Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune-are surrounded by nearly 300 moons. Researchers utilize crater analysis to deduce the ages and origins of these celestial bodies ... more |
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Hubble's Latest Gaze Reveals Jupiter's Dynamic Weather PatternsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 15, 2024 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has once again captured the majestic beauty of Jupiter, showcasing the planet's vivid weather patterns in new images taken on January 5-6, 2024. As part of the Outer Pl ... more 
Unlocking the Secrets of Eternal Ice in the Kuiper BeltLos 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 Armstrong Updates 1960s Concept to Study Giant PlanetsEdwards 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 bu ... more 
NASA's Europa Jupiter Mission will be packed with humanity's messagesWashington 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 
UCF scientists use James Webb Space Telescope to uncover clues about Neptune's evolutionOrlando 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 |
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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 in Nature Astronomy, the findings were derived by measuring hydrogen outgassing from the icy moon's surface using data collected by the spacecraft's Jovian Auroral Distributions Experiment (JADE) instrument. The paper's authors estimate the amount of oxygen produced to be around 26 pounds every second (1 ... read 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 |
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NASA's New Horizons Detects Dusty Hints of Extended Kuiper BeltLaurel 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 announcedLos 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 invites public to dive into Juno's Spectacular Images of IoLos 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 onboardLos 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 
New images reveal what Neptune and Uranus really look likeLondon, 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 |
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