The rise of AI scientists, missions to explore the moons of Earth and Mars and a massive ocean-floor drill are among the ...
When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found ...
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Study hints Mars once had a tide-raising mega moon
Mars looks quiet today, but new research suggests the planet’s surface still carries the rhythm of a vanished companion. Sediment patterns in an ancient lake bed point to regular rises and falls in ...
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Mars may have once had a huge moon big enough to cause tides, study suggests
In a new study featured by New Scientist, researchers propose that Mars might have once had a much larger moon than it does ...
Regular, alternating layers in Gale Crater may have been deposited as the result of tides raised by a moon at least 18 times ...
Clocks on Mars tick faster by about 477 microseconds each Earth day, a new study suggests. This difference is significantly ...
Update (Dec. 5, 10:30 a.m. ET): December's full 'Cold Supermoon' reached peak fullness on Thursday (Dec. 4) just after 6:00 p.m. EST. However, it's not too late to enjoy the highest (and one of the ...
Small, icy moons might be boiling under their surface. Many moons in the outer solar system are thought to harbor subsurface oceans beneath their icy crusts. New computer simulations, reported ...
Our exploration of the outer Solar System has revealed a host of icy moons, many with surface features that suggest a complex geology. In some cases, these features—most notably the geysers of ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope imaged Uranus, its rings, and several of its 29 moons with its Near-Infrared Camera on 18 December 2023. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI The solar system’s oddball ...
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