Planets/Moons

Credit: © ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS ExoMars is a space mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) in cooperation with the Russian space agency Roskosmos. ExoMars stands for exobiology on Mars: for the first time since the 1970s,…

Geologic and paleontological evidence unearthed in southern Chile supports the theory that a major cosmic impact event occurred approximately 12,800 years ago When UC Santa Barbara geology professor emeritus James Kennett and colleagues…

Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio/Tom Bridgman Just as dust gathers in corners and along bookshelves in our homes, dust piles up in space too. But when the dust settles in the solar system, it's often in rings. Several dust…

Credit: NASA/Goddard/Tim Childers Two proposals submitted by teams, led by scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have been selected to analyze unopened Apollo samples. The proposals were selected…

University of Hawaii graduate student Ashley Chontos served as lead researcherCredit: Gabriel Perez Diaz/Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias An international team of astronomers, led by University of Hawaii graduate student Ashley…

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio Scientists, using an instrument aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), have observed water molecules moving around the dayside of the Moon. A paper…

Moon's dayside water molecules migrate over the course of a dayCredit: PSI/Amanda Hendrix SAN ANTONIO -- March 8, 2019 -- Using the Southwest Research Institute-led Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) aboard NASA's Lunar…

Credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/Tim Pyle Scientists looking for signs of life beyond our solar system face major challenges, one of which is that there are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy alone to consider. To narrow the…

Credit: NASA/Goddard/SDO On the evening of March 6, 2019, the Moon started to transit the Sun, then doubled back and retraced its steps in the other direction -- at least, that's what it looked like from the perspective of…

Latest data on Jupiter and Saturn from Juno and Cassini missions challenge current theories of planetary formationCredit: Caltech WASHINGTON, D.C., March 6, 2019 -- The latest data sent back by the Juno and Cassini spacecraft from…