. Scientific Frontline: Planetary Science
Showing posts with label Planetary Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Planetary Science. Show all posts
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...
Saturday, December 27, 2025

Planetary Science: In-Depth Description

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / AI generated (Gemini) Planetary Science is the cross-disciplinary scientific study of planets, moons, a...
Friday, December 5, 2025

SwRI may have solved a mystery surrounding Uranus’ radiation belts

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SwRI scientists compared space weather impacts of a fast solar wind structure (first panel) driving an intense solar storm at Earth in 2019 ...
Monday, December 1, 2025

Findings suggest red planet was warmer, wetter millions of years ago

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Purdue University research into scattered kaolinite rocks on Mars’ surface shows the dry, dusty planet could have featured a rain-heavy clim...

New SwRI laboratory to study the origins of planetary systems

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Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has created a new space science laboratory, the Nebular Origins of the Universe Research (NOUR) Laborato...

Helium leak on the exoplanet WASP-107b

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Artist's view of WASP-107b. The planet’s low density and the intense irradiation from its star allow helium to escape the planet and for...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

New observations suggest Mars’ south pole lacks lake beneath the ice

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An artist's concept of NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been orbiting the Red Planet since 2006. The antenna is part of SHA...
Monday, November 17, 2025

Destination: Mars. First Stop: Iceland?

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This picturesque vista is the watershed in southwest Iceland, where researchers collected mars rock analog samples. Image Credit: Michael Th...
Friday, November 7, 2025

McGill-led team maps ‘weather’ on a nearby brown dwarf in unprecedented detail

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Study reveals patchy clouds and shifting atmospheric layers on a free-floating planetary-mass object just 20 light-years away, offering pote...