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The north pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus, pictured above, was found to have significant heat flow, overturning previous assumptions that heat loss was confined to its geologically active south pole.
The following is from Space.com and is a good example of why it is important to study asteroids: 1) they tell us about the origins of our Solar System, 2) they help us understand more about the origin ...
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“Would you like some curiosity?” Pamela Gay asked passersby at MagicCon: Atlanta last weekend. Most people responded to the Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist with a tentative and slightly ...
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 ...
Mars is more than a dusty, red planet. Some parts of its surface can resemble the folds and ridges of the human brain or ocean corals. Scientists have dubbed such Martian surface features ‘brain coral ...
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 ...
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 ...
The march of the planets around the Sun may seem interminable, but new research suggests that the likelihood of another star in our galaxy passing by and disrupting our Solar System is slightly higher ...
Religion and science can sometimes feel at odds, to the chagrin of Grace Wolf-Chase, a Planetary Science Institute senior scientist and senior education and communication specialist who is also a ...