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Today, the moon is a cold, dead world, but it hasn’t always been that way. Early in its history, the Moon was host to volcanic activity.…
Researchers from the Planetary Science Institute have created a 1:200,000 scale geological map of the Moon's Oriental Basins. This focuses on identifying the most extensive and…
A team of scientists from the University of Arizona, Delft University of Technology, and the California Institute of Technology's Lunar and Planetary Institute has developed a…
NASA’s Perseverance rover will pass in front of the sun on September 30, 2024, the 1,285th Martian day (Sol) since the start of its mission. I…
Europa Clipper launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on October 14, 2024 at 12:06 pm EDT, beginning a six-year journey to Jupiter's icy moon…
For decades, Jupiter’s icy moons have been considered one of the most promising places in the solar system to search for extraterrestrial life. Europa, thought to…
Using data collected by the Advanced Stellar Compass (ASC) and Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) on NASA’s Juno spacecraft, scientists have created the first complete 3D radiation…
Lunar samples collected by NASA's Apollo missions continue to enable new discoveries.NASA/ESA The Moon's largest crater is thought to have formed 4.338 billion years ago when…
Triton and Pluto, at left (not to scale), may be missing siblings. JPL/NASA//Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute An analysis of Neptune’s largest moon, Triton,…
Dinkinesh is a small asteroid orbiting the Sun near the inner edge of the main asteroid belt. NASA’s Lucy spacecraft recently revealed that this asteroid, with…
Satellite Galaxy Crater II The Milky Way's Crater 2 (or Crater 2) is located in the constellation Crater, about 380,000 light-years from Earth. This galaxy is…
 Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes some crazy ideas for how to tinker with the universe and tests their effects against the laws…
of Negative Ion Laser Spectroscopy (NILS) Chinese Chang'e 6 Probe Negative ions have been detected on the surface of the moon. These ions are produced on…
Io, Jupiter’s innermost moon, is the most volcanically active object in the solar system. Joshimer Binas/Alamy Stock Photo Jupiter’s moon Io has been continually modified by…
Mars has two irregularly shaped moons, the inner moon Phobos and the outer moon Deimos. NASA/JPL-California Institute of Technology/GSFC/University of Arizona Mars’ two moons may have…
Artist’s impression of the European Clipper near its namesake moonNASA Instruments aboard a NASA spacecraft scheduled to launch to Europe later this year could directly detect…
Radar image of Titan’s Shangri-La Sand Sea taken from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft NASA/JPL-California Institute of Technology/ASI/Paris Diderot University The dunes on Saturn’s moon Titan may be…
How did Mars get satellites?NASA/JPL-California Institute of Technology/Marin Space Science System/Texas A&M University The mystery of where Mars' two moons came from may finally be solved.…
The three newly discovered moons (S/2023 U1, S/2002 N5, and S/2021 N1) are the faintest ever discovered around Uranus and Neptune using ground-based telescopes. Discovery image…
The lunar lander, known as Odysseus, is in good condition but resting on its side a day after making history as the first civilian spacecraft to…
Astronomers have made an intriguing discovery, finding three new moons in our solar system. Of the three, two are circling Neptune while the remaining one is…
From a detailed analysis of Mimas’s orbital motion based on data from NASA’s Cassini mission, planetary researchers from the Sorbonne, the University of Nantes, Queen Mary…
NASA/JPL-California Institute of Technology/Gregory M. M. Weigand NASA’s European Clipper mission will launch in October 2024 and head to Jupiter’s moon Europa, where it will search…
Uranus showing all its rings and 9 of the planet’s 27 moonsNASA, ESA, CSA, STScI This amazing shot of Uranus taken by the James Webb Space…
Uranus’ moon Miranda NASA/JPL/USGS Uranus’ moons can have short-lived atmospheres with each season. The seasons there are so intense that these tenuous atmospheres, called exospheres, can…
