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Smashing into an asteroid shows researchers how to better protect Earth
Ars Technica· 19 hours agoOn a fall evening in 2022, scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory...
New Answers for Mars' Methane Mystery
Universe Today· 15 hours agoPlanetary scientists perk up whenever methane is mentioned. In recent years, MSL Curiosity detected methane coming from the surface of Gale Crater on...
On the Radar: Can We Detect Doomsday Asteroids in Time?
SciTechDaily· 7 days agoScientists discuss recent advancements and the role of radar in planetary science and defense. How...
Big decision! Curiosity rover keeps following possible Mars river remnant
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days ago"We talked a lot about how the rocks we could see from our current location compared with the rocks...
NASA plans high-tech railway system on the moon as astronauts prepare for 2028 mission
NY Post via Yahoo News· 5 days agoSounds like utter lunar-cy. As the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) readies to...
NASA's Juno provides high-definition views of Europa's icy shell
Phys.org· 15 hours agoThe JunoCam results recently appeared in the Planetary Science Journal and the SRU results in the journal JGR Planets. On Sept. 29, 2022, Juno made its closest flyby of Europa ...
The mission to retrieve a Mars sample is running into turbulence
The Verge· 2 days agoHundreds of millions of miles away, on the frigid surface of Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover is hard...
Chemical Culprit Identified: Scientists Discover Why “Earth’s Twin” Has Almost No Water
SciTechDaily· 7 days agoResearchers have discovered that Venus loses significantly more water than previously thought due to...
How the Moon got a makeover
Ars Technica· 5 days agoOne question that has gone unanswered for decades is why there are more titanium-rich volcanic rocks, such as ilmenite, on the near side as opposed to...
Giant ‘ultra-light’ planet bigger than Jupiter is ‘fluffy like cotton candy’
The US Sun· 17 hours ago"Its extremely low density makes it a real anomaly among the more than five thousand exoplanets discovered to date," explained Khalid Barkaoui, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of ...