Major Asteroid Impact May Have Caused Mars Megatsunami
Mars Megatsunami May Have Been Caused by Chicxulub-Like Asteroid Impact A Martian megatsunami may have been caused by an asteroid collision similar to the Chicxulub…
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From Temperate World to Acidic Hothouse: How Massive Volcanism May Have Altered Venus’ Climate
Venus may have been transformed from a temperate and wet world to the acidic hothouse it is today with help from vast volcanic activity lasting…
Early Crust on Mars More Complex and Evolved Than Previously Thought
Early crust on Mars may be more complex than researchers previously thought—and it may even be similar to Earth’s original crust. The Martian surface is…
Mars’ Interior: Deep Planetary Scan Confirms Martian Core
A new method to scan the deep interior of planets in our solar system to confirm whether they have a core at the heart of…
Mars Is Alive!
Until now, Mars has generally been considered a geologically dead planet. An international team of scientists now reports that seismic signals indicate vulcanism still plays…
How Did the Earth and Moon Form? The Surprising Role of Magnetism
According to a new scientific assessment, a peculiar property of the Earth’s magnetic field could help us to work out how our planet was created…
Large Meteorite Impacts on Mars: Seismic Waves Observed on Surface of a Planet Other Than Earth for the First Time
What Seismic Waves Reveal About the Martian Crust Scientists have observed, for the first time, seismic waves propagating along the surface of a planet other…
Chaotic Crust Contains Clues to Mars’ Watery Past in Search for Signs of Past Life on the Red Planet
ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft takes us over the Holden Basin – part of a region that is a high-ranking target in the search for signs…
Discovery Could Dramatically Speed Up the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Planets orbiting the most common star type may be uninhabitable. An Earth-like planet orbiting an M dwarf — the most abundant type of star in…
Tantalizing Science and Dangerous Hazards: NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Reaches Long-Awaited Salty Region
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover has arrived at a special region believed to have formed as Mars’ climate was drying. After trekking this summer through a…
“Marshmallow” World Discovered: Giant Fluffy Planet Orbiting a Cool Red Dwarf Star
Kitt Peak National Observatory telescope helps determines that Jupiter-like Planet is the lowest-density gas giant ever detected around a red dwarf. A gas giant exoplanet…
Spectacular Planetary-Scale “Heat Wave” Discovered in Jupiter’s Atmosphere
An unexpected ‘heat wave’ has been discovered in Jupiter’s atmosphere. It reaches a scorching temperature of 700 degrees Celsius (1300 degrees Fahrenheit) and extends 130,000…
Scientists Identify the Source of the Planet Ceres’ Unexpected Geological Activity
Modeling reveals how Ceres powers unexpected geologic activity. According to Scott King, a geoscientist at the Virginia Tech College of Science, our view of Ceres has…
Super-Earth Found Near the Habitable Zone of Red Dwarf
A new super-Earth planet was found 37 light years from Earth. Only 37 light-years from Earth, a super-Earth planet has been discovered close to a…
Chrysalis: Saturn’s Ancient, Missing Moon
Saturn’s Rings and Tilt Could Be the Product of an Ancient, Missing Moon According to a new study, a “grazing encounter” may have smashed the…
Planetary Heist: Astronomers Discover That Stars Can Steal Planets
Researchers at the University of Sheffield have proposed a new origin for Jupiter-like planets orbiting massive stars three times the mass of our Sun. According…
Incredible New Webb Telescope Image of Neptune Captures Never Seen Ring Details
Webb Space Telescope Infrared Observations Tease Out Never Seen Atmospheric and Ring Details At an average distance of 2.8 billion miles (4.5 billion kilometers) from…
Don’t Miss: Jupiter To Reach Opposition, Closest Approach to Earth in 59 Years!
When Jupiter reaches opposition on Monday, September 26, stargazers can expect incredible views of Jupiter the entire night. From the viewpoint of Earth’s surface, opposition…
