Planetary scientists have discovered more than 15,000 km of ancient riverbeds in Noachis Terra, a region in Mars’ southern highlands. This discovery...
The Martian meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 16254 is a 406-g gabbroic shergottite found two years ago in Algeria.
Image of the entire NWA 16254 sample...
An analysis of Northwest Africa (NWA) 16286, a lunar meteorite with a unique chemical signature, offers fresh insights into how the Moon’s interior evolved,...
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have captured new images of 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever observed.
This VLT/FORS2...
NASA’s Lucy mission continues to analyze images collected during the spacecraft’s April 20, 2025 encounter with the carbonaceous asteroid Donaldjohanson.
Donaldjohanson...
3I/ATLAS is only the third object of its kind ever observed, following the interstellar asteroid 1I/ʻOumuamua in 2017 and the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov...
After the interstellar asteroid 1I/ʻOumuamua and the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov, 3I/ATLAS is the third object and the second comet from outside the...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a major new scientific facility jointly funded by NSF and the U.S. DoE’s Office of Science. The new images are a small...
During periods known as Snowball Earth, between 720 and 635 million years ago, early eukaryotes — complex cellular lifeforms that eventually evolved...
In their new paper, Los Alamos National Laboratory planetary scientist Nina Lanza and colleagues looked at what would be needed to make the surface environment...
In new research, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope searched for signs of interactions between the magnetic environment and the surfaces...
Named 2017 OF201, the newly-discovered trans-Neptunian object is one of the most distant visible objects in our Solar System and is likely large (about...
To make these high-resolution images and movies, astronomers from NSF’s National Solar Observatory and New Jersey Institute of Technology developed a...
Slope streaks are dark features on Martian slopes that form spontaneously and fade over years to decades. Some planetary scientists have interpreted those...
Titan is the only moon in the Solar System with a significant atmosphere, and one that has long captivated planetary scientists. According to a new analysis...
Mars hosts various auroral processes despite the planet’s tenuous atmosphere and lack of a global magnetic field. To date, all aurora observations have...
The Sun rarely produced extreme solar particle events, orders of magnitude stronger than everything directly observed. Their enormous power can greatly...
