The powerful infrared space telescope is powering down after 16 years. It has revolutionized our understanding of solar systems, including hidden surprises in our own.Read More »Planetary Sciences
A small pile of dust grains older than the Sun brings new evidence about the rate at which stars are born in the Milky Way.Read More »Planetary Sciences
A handful of interstellar objects and long-period comets could have scooped up microorganisms from Earth and carried them to worlds around other stars.Read More »Planetary Sciences
Thanks to some extraordinary engineering, the InSight mission has led the new field of Martian seismology to the development of a new planetary magnitude scale in less than a year.Read More »Planetary Sciences
A first usage of principal component analysis on Hubble images of Jupiter’s auroral ovals reveals the most common patterns, and machine learning classification reveals their physical causes.Read More »
