Solar System
If Earth is Average, We Should Find Extraterrestrial Life Within 60 Light-Years
A new study estimates that there could be 11,000 habitable planets within 100 parsecs of our Sun, the nearest being…
The OSIRIS-REx Capsule Has Landed! Asteroid Samples Returned!
The samples obtained by NASA's OSIRIS-REx of the asteroid Bennu landed this morning and will be analyzed shortly!
Tiny Swarming Spacecraft Could Establish Communications with Proxima Centauri
New research from the Institute for Interstellar Studies explains how swarms of thousands of tiny spacecraft could maintain communications with…
Whether Saturn's Rings are Young or Old, its Moons are as Ancient as the Planet Itself
A team of researchers has obtained new estimates on the age of Saturn's irregular satellites, which range from 4.1 and…
Some Metal Meteorites Have a Tiny Magnetic Field. But How?
A portion of the metallic meteorites found on Earth have traces of magnetism. This is surprising since you need a…
Jupiter’s Moons Get the JWST Treatment
A pair of studies published in JGR: Planets and Science Advances discuss new findings from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope…
Psyche Mission Passes Independent Review Board with Flying Colors
An independently appointed review board recently announced that NASA, their Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and the California Institute of Technology…
NASA’s HiRISE Camera Recently Imaged a Martian Dust Devil. But Why Study Them?
NASA recently used its powerful High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to take a breathtaking…
Jupiter’s “Stripes” Change Color. Now We Might Know Why
While Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is one of the most well-known spectacles in the solar system, Jupiter’s clouds and stripes…
Juice is Fully Deployed. It’s Now in its Final Form, Ready to Meet Jupiter’s Moons in 2031
Launched on April 14, 2023, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice; formerly known as JUICE) spacecraft…