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Showing posts with label Planetary Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Planetary Science. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

New study revises our picture of the most common planets in the galaxy

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A new study finds that many “mini-Neptunes”—perhaps the most common planets in the galaxy—are under so much pressure from their heavy atmosp...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Geologists discover the first evidence of 4.5-billion-year-old “proto-Earth”

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“This is maybe the first direct evidence that we’ve preserved the proto Earth materials,” says Nicole Nie. An artist’s illustration shows a ...
Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Raging winds on Mars

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Images of dust devils, whirlwinds of dust that are blown across Mars’ surface. Image Credit: ESA/TGO/CaSSIS for CaSSIS ( CC BY SA 3.0 IGO ) ...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Moon-forming disc around massive planet

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An artistic rendering of a dust and gas disc encircling the young exoplanet, CT Cha b, 625 light-years from Earth. Spectroscopic data from t...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

Cosmic glass found only in Australia reveals ancient asteroid impact

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The newly discovered tektites or ‘cosmic glass’. Photo Credit: Et al. ‘Earth and Planetary Science Letters’ Curtin researchers have helped u...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

New Mars research reveals multiple episodes of habitability in Jezero Crater

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Jerezo Carter: Mars 2020 Rover Landing Site Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/JHUAPL New research using NASA’s Perseverance rover has unco...
Monday, February 3, 2025

AI unveils: Meteoroid impacts cause Mars to shake

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High-resolution CaSSIS image of one of the newly discovered impact craters in Cerberus Fossae. The so-called "blast zone", i.e. th...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

A Super-Earth laboratory for searching life elsewhere in the Universe

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In green, the habitable zone in the orbit of planet HD 20794. Image Credit: (Dumusque et al. 2025) © Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC) Thirty ye...
Sunday, January 26, 2025

SwRI-designed experiments corroborate theory about how Titan maintains its atmosphere

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To understand the persistent thick atmosphere on Saturn's largest moon, SwRI worked with the Carnegie Institution for Science Laboratory...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

New data on atmosphere from Earth to the edge of space

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Clouds in Antarctica. Our weather is influenced by many factors, at ground level (such as mountains and human activity), interactions in our...
Thursday, January 9, 2025

SwRI models pluto-charon formation scenario that mimics earth-moon system

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Using advanced models, SwRI led new research that indicates that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon syste...
Friday, March 22, 2024

Signs of life detectable in single ice grain emitted from extraterrestrial moons

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An artist’s rendition of Saturn’s moon Enceladus depicts hydrothermal activity on the seafloor and cracks in the moon’s icy crust that allow...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Icy impacts: Planetary scientists use physics and images of impact craters to gauge the thickness of ice on Europa

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Brandon Johnson and his team study impact craters around the solar system for clues about planetary bodies’ history and composition. Photo C...
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Juno Spacecraft Measures Oxygen Production on Jupiter's Moon, Europa

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For the first time, SwRI scientists used the Jovian Auroral Distributions Experiment (JADE) instrument to definitively detect oxygen and hyd...

Groundbreaking survey reveals secrets of planet birth around dozens of stars

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This research brings together observations of more than 80 young stars that might have planets forming around them in spectacular discs. Thi...
Monday, March 4, 2024

Water May Have Flowed Intermittently in Martian Valleys for Hundreds of Millions of Years

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Detail of an unnamed valley network on Mars. Impact craters are marked with blue and red circles. Craters marked in red postdate the valley ...