A Single Asteroid Caused Two Billion Craters on Mars, Scientists Claim

A team of scientists have found that a single meteorite was likely responsible for creating billions of craters on the Martian surface.

Giant volcano on Mars hiding in plain sight

 Although more eroded and not as tall, the newly discovered volcano rivals the others in diameter. It’s about 450 km across. The volcano sits on the eastern edge of a broad rise called Tharsis, home to 3 other well-known giant volcanoes.

Juno measures oxygen production on Europa

Using NASA’s Juno spacecraft, scientists have calculated the rate of oxygen production on Jupiter’s moon Europa — the first time any spacecraft had directly measured charged oxygen and hydrogen particles from the moon’s atmosphere.

Hiroshima Fallout May Offer a Glimpse of the Early Solar System

Bits of glass called Hiroshimaites may have formed by processes similar to those that formed the Sun and the planets.

Japan moon lander put to sleep after surviving lunar night

Japan's moon lander has been put back to sleep after it surprisingly survived the freezing, two-week lunar night, the country's space agency said, with another operation attempt scheduled for later this month.

New moons of Uranus and Neptune discovered

  • 11 Mar 2024

The International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of three new moons in our solar system Feb. 23. Uranus has one additional moon, while Neptune has picked up two.

Saturn's largest moon most likely uninhabitable

A study shows the subsurface ocean of Titan—the largest moon of Saturn—is most likely a non-habitable environment, meaning any hope of finding life in the icy world is dead in the water.

Odysseus prepares for sleep after landing near Moon's south pole

Odysseus is part of a venture between Intuitive Machines and NASA and the first American craft to land on the Moon since 1972.

Webb Finds Evidence of Hydrothermal Processes in Interiors of Eris and Makemake

The icy dwarf planets Eris and Makemake have surfaces bearing methane ice of unknown origin. The two planets may have warm oceans. 

Kuiper Belt May Be Much Larger than Previously Estimated

New measurements by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft show higher than model-predicted levels of interstellar dust as the spacecraft approaches the putative outer edge of the Kuiper Belt.

Ancient Volcanoes on Mars Hold Clues to Earth's Long-Lost Past

For a quiet, dusty lump of a planet we see today, Mars has had a surprisingly violent history, one that could reveal some clues about Earth.

Water molecules identified on asteroids for the first time

Scientists identified water on two main-belt asteroids, 7 Iris and 20 Massalia, using data from the now-defunct SOFIA airborne observatory.

Mysterious Rings Around Space Rock Might Be Carved by a Secret Moon

Scientists have discovered that a pair of rings circling an asteroid-like chunk of rock in the cold reaches of space out past Jupiter are likely being shepherded by a tiny, unseen moonlet.

NASA Presented Previously Unknown Photographs Of Saturn's Moons

On new recently released NASA images show the moons of Saturn in all their glory, as if they came straight out of the pages of science fiction.

First Look at Asteroid Hints It's a Fragment of a Lost Ocean World

NASA scientists are just getting started in their analysis of fragments brought back from the Bennu asteroid, and the early indications are that the material it contains originated from an ancient ocean world.