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The painting on the left is an artist’s conception of a plume eruption on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The image on the right is a photo of two researchers in the Utah desert collecting effluent from the ...
A composite view of Europa’s spider-like Manannán Crater (right), taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in May 1998. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Dec. 1, 2025, TUCSON, Ariz. – From Europa to ...
An artist's concept of NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been orbiting the Red Planet since 2006. The antenna is part of SHARAD, a radar that peers below the Martian surface. Credit: ...
A collage of moons from the outer Solar System suspected of having a subsurface ocean. New research addresses the mystery as to why their surfaces can be so varied. Credit: NASA On moons in the outer ...
NASA recently announced that the Martian rover Perseverance discovered a potential biosignature, a substance or structure that might have a biological origin. Dotting the side of a rock formation ...
New research suggests that Ariel, a moon of Uranus, might have once harbored an ocean about 100 miles (170km) deep. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/PSI/Mikayla Kelley/Peter ...
From Sept. 7-12, PSI scientists gathered in Helsinki, Finland with planetary science colleagues for a joint science meeting between the Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) and the U.S.-based Division ...
July 24, 2025, TUCSON, Ariz. – On the slopes of Martian mountains and craters clings what appears to be flowing honey, coated in dust and frozen in time. In reality, these features are incredibly slow ...
July 15, 2025, TUCSON, Ariz. – Orbiting in the outskirts of the Solar System is a mysterious object moving in rhythm with Neptune, according to a new paper published in the Planetary Science Journal.
June 26, 2025, TUCSON, Ariz. – After nearly 20 years of operations, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO for short, is on a roll, performing a new maneuver to squeeze even more science out of ...
June 26, 2025, TUCSON, Ariz. – June 30 is Asteroid Day, the United Nations sanctioned day of public awareness of the importance of asteroids. Asteroid Day is observed on the anniversary of the Siberia ...