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Mars’ Cold and Icy Past Revealed in New Research

A study suggests Mars had a cold, subarctic climate similar to Newfoundland, based on soil analyses from Gale Crater. This…

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Webb Uncovers Unexpected Phenomena Above Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

New observations of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter have revealed that the planet’s atmosphere above and around the infamous…

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The Mystery of Aganippe Fossa

This image from ESA’s Mars Express shows Aganippe Fossa, a fascinating groove at the foot of Mars’s colossal Arsia Mons…

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Mars Quakes Reveal Daily Meteor Bombardments on the Red Planet

First meteoroid impact detected by NASA’s InSight mission; the image was taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its High-Resolution…

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How NASA InSight’s Seismic Data Is Rewriting Martian History

Recent findings from the InSight mission reveal that Mars experiences 280 to 360 significant meteorite impacts annually, far exceeding previous…

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A New Way to Discover Hidden Water Deep Underground on Mars

Researchers are exploring the potential of using seismoelectric signals from marsquakes to detect underground water on Mars, a method inspired…

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Surprise Discovery of Mysterious Mini-Neptune Exoplanets

Diagram of discovered exoplanet orbits. The orbits of exoplanets close to their parent stars tend to become circular over time,…

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Webb Discovers Mystery Sulfur on Distant Planet

The sulfur-laden atmosphere discovered on gaseous exoplanet GJ 3470 b, shown here in an illustration orbiting its star in the…

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Webb Telescope Captures Massive Asteroid Collision in Neighboring Star System

Astronomers observed a giant asteroid collision in Beta Pictoris, using data from the Webb and Spitzer telescopes. The event, occurring…

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Jupiter’s Colossal Cyclones Driven by Earth-Like Atmospheric Processes

Cloud system in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere imaged by Juno spacecraft. New research shows similarities between Earth’s atmospheric processes and those…

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