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Saturn's moon Titan imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope
Boing Boing· 8 hours agoThe superficially Earthlike appearance of Titan, as imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope, is belied by its cold and inhospitable weirdness. Titan is a strange world — ...
BepiColombo detects escaping oxygen and carbon in unexplored region of Venus's magnetosphere
Phys.org· 2 weeks agoDetections in a previously unexplored region of Venus's magnetic environment show that carbon and oxygen are being accelerated to speeds where they can escape the planet's ...
Pluto gained a ‘heart’ after colliding with a planetary body
CNN via AOL· 5 days agoPrevious research has suggested that Pluto could have a subsurface ocean, and if so, the icy crust...
Purple Bacteria -- Not Green Plants -- Might Be the Strongest Indication of Life
Universe Today· 1 day ago...thrive under a wide range of conditions, making it one of the primary contenders for life that...
Pluto's huge white 'heart' has a surprisingly violent origin, new study suggests
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 week agoTombaugh Regio — the large, pale heart that dominates Pluto's terrain — is made of nitrogen ice that...
Venus Exploration Remains Key To Understanding Exo-Earths, Says Paper
Forbes· 3 days agoTo paraphrase Winston Churchill, our sister planet Venus remains a riddle, wrapped in a mystery,...
Mystery Solved: The Cosmic Collision That Crafted Pluto’s Heart
SciTechDaily· 1 week agoThe mystery of how Pluto got a giant heart-shaped feature on its surface has finally been solved by...
Tides Move Heaven and Earth More Than You Know
Scientific American· 2 weeks agoThe word “tide” is a bit confusing; most people think of it as the ebb and flow of the ocean at the beach, caused by the moon as it orbits Earth. Not only that, but this implacable ...
Astrophysicists solve mystery of heart-shaped feature on the surface of Pluto
Phys.org· 1 week agoEver since the cameras of NASA's New Horizons mission discovered a large heart-shaped structure on...
Peptides on interstellar ice: Study finds presence of water molecules not a major obstacle for...
Phys.org· 1 week agoA research team led by Dr. Serge Krasnokutski from the Astrophysics Laboratory at the Max Planck...