. Scientific Frontline: Planetary Science
Showing posts with label Planetary Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Planetary Science. Show all posts
Thursday, June 4, 2026

Iron Meteorites & Early Earth's Elements

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An artist's impression of a disk of gas and dust formed during the birth of the Sun. Image Credit: NASA/FUSE/Lynette Cook Scientific Fro...
Monday, May 18, 2026

SwRI Reevaluates Europa's Vapor Plumes

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Water vapor plumes on Jupiter's Europa A new SwRI study has raised doubts about the existence of water vapor plumes on Jupiter’s moon Eu...
Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Dual Observation of Comet 3I/ATLAS

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In November 2025, 3I/ATLAS passed between ESA’s Juice and NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. SwRI researchers informally coordinated efforts ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

New method sharpens the search for alien biology

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The search for life beyond Earth could benefit from an approach that looks beyond any one particular biosignature. Image Credit: NASA Scient...
Sunday, May 10, 2026

Venus’ atmosphere jumps and waves

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Making waves.These images taken on Aug. 18 (left) and Aug. 27 (right), 2016, by the near-infrared camera on Japan’s Akatsuki Venus probe, sh...
Tuesday, May 5, 2026

What Is: Chemosynthesis

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Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Chemosynthesis—Deep-Sea Sunless Life The Core Concept : Chemosynthesis is t...
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...