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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 ...
Sarah Penniston-Dorland, President of the Mineralogical Society of America, left, presents the 2025 Roebling Medal to Darby Dyar. Credit: Laura Breitenfeld Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist ...
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 ...
Areas that were examined in this study are part of the Raditladi impact basin. Credit: Image from https://mercury.quickmap.io The MESSENGER mission to Mercury discovered the unexpected presence of ...
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 ...