. Scientific Frontline: Planetary Science
Showing posts with label Planetary Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Planetary Science. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Planets need more water to support life than scientists previously thought

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This image of Venus taken by NASA’s Mariner 10 spacecraft (left) is paired with an artist’s depiction of three possible atmospheres on a rec...
Monday, April 13, 2026

Sulfur reshapes interior evolution and crust formation on Mercury

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Yishen Zhang. Photo Credit: Jared Jones/Rice University Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Sulfur-Driven Magma...
Friday, April 3, 2026

The depths of Neptune and Uranus may be “superionic”

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Illustration of the predicted hexagonal carbon hydride compound under Neptune-like interior conditions. In this structure, carbon forms the ...
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

A Solar System in the making? Two planets spotted forming in disc around young star

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This image shows two planets being born around the young star WISPIT 2. These observations were made with the SPHERE instrument at ESO’s Ver...
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Large craters offer clues to the origin of asteroid 16 Psyche

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Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary : Asteroid 16 Psyche Main Discovery : The internal porosity of asteroid 16 Psyche sign...

From dust to planets: a turbulent story

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Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary : Shear-Flow Instability in Planet Formation Main Discovery : Researchers have provide...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Ancient Zircon Crystals Provide a Window into Early Earth History

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A zircon crystal exhibiting distinct edges, or rims, from a metamorphic event after its initial formation. Photo Credit: Shane K. Houchin Sc...
Sunday, March 1, 2026

What Is: The Biosphere

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A conceptual visualization of Earth's life-supporting envelope, illustrating the dynamic flow of energy and the intricate integration of...
Thursday, February 12, 2026

CHEOPS detects a new planetary "disorder"

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Artist impression of the planetary system around the star LHS 1903 Image Credit: © ESA Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Hydrogen sulfide detected in distant gas giant exoplanets for the first time

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This animation shows the four giant planets orbiting HR 8799, located 133 light-years from Earth. The movie combines real images captured at...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

NASA’s Juno spacecraft measures thickness of Europa’s ice shell

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NASA’s Juno mission, led by an SwRI scientist, recently provided the first resolved subsurface measurements of the ice-encased Jovian moon E...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Streaks on Mercury show: Mercury is not a "dead planet"

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Image of the streaks or ‘lineae’ on the slopes of a crater wall on Mercury and the bright hollows from which the streaks originate. The imag...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

International astronomical survey captures remarkable images of the “teenage years” of new worlds

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This ARKS gallery of faint debris disks reveals details about their shape: belts with multiple rings, wide smooth halos, sharp edges, and un...
Monday, January 19, 2026

Polar weather on Jupiter and Saturn hints at the planets’ interior details

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This infrared 3D image of Jupiter's north pole shows a ring of 8 vortices surrounding a central cyclone. MIT researchers have now identi...
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Hidden magma oceans could shield rocky exoplanets from harmful radiation

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UNDER ARMOR? Deep layers of molten rock inside some super-earths could generate powerful magnetic fields—potentially stronger than Earth’s—a...
Monday, January 12, 2026

Tiny Mars’ big impact on Earth’s climate

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Differences in the way Earth and Mars orbit the sun. Image Credit: NASA Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary Main Discovery...

Mars was half covered by an ocean

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The delta deposits that appeared on the images of Mars with the coastline. Image Credit: © ESA/ExoMars – TGO/CaSSIS/Ignatius Argadestya Scie...
Thursday, January 8, 2026

This exotic form of ice just got weirder

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Researchers paired ultrafast X-rays with specialized instruments to study the atomic stacking structures of superionic water – a hot, black ...
Wednesday, January 7, 2026

We finally know how the most common types of planets are created

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Astronomers have now witnessed four baby planets in the V1298 Tau system in the process of becoming super-Earths and sub-Neptunes. Image Cre...
Tuesday, January 6, 2026

A new study finds Jupiter’s moon Europa’s quiet seafloor may still hold keys for life

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A “black smoker” at the Piccard hydrothermal field, 5,000 meters below the surface, on the Mid-Cayman Rise. Photo Credit: Chris German / ROV...