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Paul Scott Anderson
Do Europa’s odd ridges indicate life?
Europa's odd ridges may form similarly to those in Greenland. The ridges occur over subsurface pockets of potentially habitable water in the moon's ice shell.
April 27, 2022
Do Io’s enigmatic dunes form from lava and frost?
Researchers at Rutgers say they can finally explain how Io's enigmatic dunes form, despite the moon's extremely thin atmosphere and weak winds.
April 27, 2022
Did an interstellar meteor hit Earth in 2014?
The U.S. Space Command published a surprising memo last week stating that an interstellar meteor crashed near Papua New Guinea in 2014.
April 18, 2022
Neptune’s temperatures run oddly warm and cold
Neptune's temperatures are surprisingly both cooler and warmer than expected, scientists say in a new study using telescopes both on Earth and in space.
April 17, 2022
Moon habitat project: Can we cope with the loneliness of space?
A simulation of a moon habitat in the Arctic shows how future lunar dwellers might cope with the psychological effects of extreme isolation.
April 10, 2022
Hubble sees violent birth of Jupiter-like world
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have, for the 1st time, observed a giant new planet forming around another star via disk instability.
April 8, 2022
Pluto’s giant ice volcanoes may still be erupting
Unusual large icy domes on Pluto's surface are likely giant ice volcanoes where water ice "lava" flowed, researchers say.
April 3, 2022
Background glow of the universe is oddly bright
Astronomers say the universe's background glow is strangely twice as bright as thought. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made the unexpected discovery.
April 3, 2022
Asteroid Ryugu harbors life’s building blocks
Researchers discovered an abundance of organic materials, including amino acids, in samples brought back to Earth from asteroid Ryugu.
March 27, 2022
Perseverance rover sprints to Martian delta
NASA's Perseverance rover is heading to an ancient river delta on Mars in record time, thanks to an advanced navigation system using artificial intelligence.
March 26, 2022
