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U of A leads NASA mission studying distant planet atmospheres
1+ week, 2+ day ago (28+ words) kvoa.com NASA's Pandora mission has started operations to study planets outside our solar system. Watch News 4 Tucson...
Venus Might Have Once Had a Moon. But the Hellish Planet Could Have Destroyed It
1+ week, 3+ day ago (300+ words) A new model suggests Venus could have swallowed a lost moon billions of years ago....
Astronomers Might Use Manganese to Clock the Age of Galaxies
1+ week, 5+ day ago (68+ words) Keeping track of time in the universe is a difficult task. It’s constantly evolving and changing, and studying events that happened billions of years ago, while possible, isn’t exactly easy. A recent paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal…...
PhD student advancing the science of Ice Giant planets at hypersonic speed | Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences
1+ week, 6+ day ago (662+ words) Cate Leszcz gazes into her computer screen, analyzing complex mathematical formulas as she seeks to learn secrets of planets over a billion miles from Earth. The ice giants Uranus and Neptune orbit at the far reaches of our solar system....
Mars's Southern Half Is Up to 400 Degrees Hotter Than Its North, and Scientists Just Figured Out Why
1+ week, 5+ day ago (681+ words) For decades, scientists assumed the differences between Mars's north and south stopped at the surface. New data pulled from NASA spacecraft suggests something far stranger is happening hundreds of kilometers below. A recent study has found that there is an…...
Scientists Found an Amazing Reason Some Lava Worlds Can Keep Their Atmospheres Against All Odds
1+ week, 6+ day ago (655+ words) The hottest rocky worlds may survive by hiding their air in oceans of magma. Worlds like 55 Cancri e seem almost designed to destroy an atmosphere. The rocky super-Earth orbits so close to its star that its year lasts less than…...
NASA Explains the Spooky 'Negative-Space Jellyfish' Hovering Over Mars in New Curiosity Rover Image
2+ week, 2+ day ago (856+ words) The black and white picture was captured by NASA's Lunar Orbiter 3 in February 1967 as the agency mapped potential landing sites ahead of the first crewed missions. The frame shows a stark stretch of the moon's surface dominated by Theophilus crater,…...
Indo-French Workshop at GITAM Bengaluru Explores New Frontiers in Planetary Science
2+ week, 5+ day ago (193+ words) A key focus of the workshop was the use of Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy for analysing the elemental and molecular composition of planetary surfaces. Through plenary lectures, technical presentations and brainstorming sessions, scientists discussed how these techniques can…...
Breakthrough in understanding ice formation in clouds
2+ week, 6+ day ago (389+ words) Bielefeld team explains why microcline is so effective image: Dr Florian Schneider (left) and Prof Dr Angelika Kühnle (right) from Bielefeld University use the atomic force microscope to investigate ice crystal formation on microcline surfaces. view more Key facts at…...
A New Way to Find Resources in Space
3+ week, 5+ day ago (513+ words) Figure Credit: Pablo Sobron August 19, 2026, Mountain View, CA — Before people can mine resources on the Moon, asteroids, or Mars, they need to answer a few key questions: What is there? How much is there? And where can it be found?...