Dietmar Muller
Deep-sea sediments show how the changing orbits of Earth and Mars are linked to past global warming and the speeding up of deep-ocean eddies.
The dark, far side of the Moon is the perfect place to conduct radio astronomy.
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Projects under NASA’s CLPS program – including the Odysseus lander that made it to the lunar surface – will probe unexplored questions about the universe’s formation.
Data from the SLIM mission projected at JAXA’s Sagamihara Campus during the craft’s landing.
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Japan is one of several countries that weren’t part of the space race of the 1950s and 1960s looking toward the Moon. They’ve now become the 5th country to have landed on its surface.
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The Peregrine and Nova-C landers are due to carry out valuable science at two diverse lunar locations.
Scientists still debate the origins of Earth’s life-sustaining elements.
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Scientists analyzing isotope ratios have found that many of the elements that make up life could be left over from Earth’s formation.
The Earth’s magnetic field deflects particles emitted by the Sun.
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Ever seen the northern lights? You have a magnetic layer in Earth’s atmosphere to thank for those beautiful displays. But the magnetosphere does a lot more than create auroras.
The stark landscape of the Moon as viewed by the Apollo 12 astronauts on their return to Earth.
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Some dark craters on the Moon are never exposed to light − ice could be hiding in these permanently shadowed regions, and India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission marked a big step toward finding it.
Wherever you view it from on Earth, it’s the same Moon.
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Despite the distances involved, people as far apart as the UK and Australia can see the Moon at the same time.
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A distant lump of space rock may have a surprising amount in common with the core of our own planet.
The “coal-like” material from Bennu.
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Studying the sample could help answer how water arrived on Earth and how life started.
Perspective view of a lobate scarp on Mercury named Carnegie Rupes, colour-coded according to surface altitude. The crater near the middle is nearly 40 km across.
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Mercury has shrunk by7 km. Most of this happened long ago, but now we have evidence that it continues.
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has delivered pieces of asteroid Bennu, which scientists hope will offer a window into the early era of the Solar System billions of years ago.
Chandrayaan-3’s Pragyan rover has traveled 328 feet.
(100 meters) and measured the chemistry of the lunar soil
ISRO
India’s Chandrayaan-3 rover has found sulfur on the Moon’s surface at higher concentrations than previously seen. Sulfur, a useful resource, could pave the way for future Moon bases.
A colour-exaggerated view of Saturn backlit by the sun.
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New research suggests Saturn’s rings may be surprisingly young.
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Astronomers are hot on the search for new exoplanets – planets that lie beyond our Solar System – which might show potential for sustaining life.
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Zircons formed in the hellish Chernobyl meltdown are changing how geologists understand their favourite crystals.
There was little time for water from the Earth’s atmosphere to contaminate the meteorite after it fell.
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In 2021, searchers recovered a meteorite that fell over the UK just hours earlier. Scientists have now reconstructed its story.
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Five new studies show smashing spacecraft into asteroids could be a viable way to defend Earth from threatening space rocks.
A satellite image of Lake Bosumtwi. It filled a meteorite impact crater.
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It’s time to get more Ghanaians interested in this fascinating, important aspect of science.
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Within hours of its landing, samples of the Winchcombe meteorite had been recovered and its origins tracked back beyond Mars to the asteroid belt.