Models Point to a Potentially Diverse Metabolic Menu at Enceladus Using data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, scientists at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) modeled chemical processes…
What causes the weathering of the Mars moon Phobos? Results from the Vienna University of Technology give new insights, soon a spacecraft will retrieve soil…
The first mining experiments conducted in space could pave the way for new technologies to help humans explore and establish settlements on distant worlds, a…
A new model shows how brine on Jupiter’s moon Europa can migrate within the icy shell to form pockets of salty water that erupt to…
New lab experiments re-create the environment of Europa and find that the icy moon shines, even on its nightside. The effect is more than just…
A new chronology for the moons of Saturn has been developed by Planetary Science Institute Associate Research Scientist Samuel W. Bell. “Most studies dating surfaces…
New research on nine craters of Saturn’s largest moon provides more details about how weathering affects the evolution of the surface — and what lies…
NASA scientists identified a molecule in Titan’s atmosphere that has never been detected in any other atmosphere. In fact, many chemists have probably barely heard…
New radio images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) show for the first time the direct effect of volcanic activity on the atmosphere of Jupiter’s…
A global infrared mosaic of Saturn’s moon Enceladus created using a complete dataset from the Cassini spacecraft has revealed new detail on the moon’s surface….
Scientists used data gathered by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft during 13 years of exploring the Saturn system to make detailed images of the icy moon —…
Researchers from Kobe University and the National Institute of Technology, Oshima College have conducted a detailed reanalysis of image data from Voyager 1, 2 and…
Jupiter, named for the king of the ancient Roman gods, commands its own mini-version of our solar system of circling satellites; their movements convinced Galileo…
Infrared images from Juno provide the first glimpse of Ganymede’s icy north pole. On its way inbound for a Dec. 26, 2019, flyby of Jupiter,…
SPARROW, a steam-powered robotic concept, could one day take giant leaps over some of the most hazardous terrains known (and unknown) in the solar system….
One of four concepts being considered for a Discovery Program mission, Trident would investigate one of the solar system’s most unusual worlds. When NASA’s Voyager…
Taken with the infrared camera on NASA’s Odyssey orbiter, the images reveal temperature variations aboard the small moon as it drifts into and out of…
The new research by scientists at NASA and the Italian Space Agency has implications for the entire Saturn system as well as other planets and…