A three-dimensional model of material transport suggests that impact cratering can mix lunar soils across distances of more than 100 kilometers.Read More »Planetary Sciences
First results from the Juno mission shed new light on Jupiter’s atmosphere, gravity, magnetic field, aurora, history, and more.Read More »Planetary Sciences
At one point early in its history, Earth was likely a synestia, a huge, spinning, donut-shaped mass of hot, vaporized rock, a new study finds.Read More »
At a recent forum, Sen. Ted Cruz also announced a Senate hearing to revisit the half-century-old Outer Space Treaty, and he warned about potential military threats to the nation’s satellites.Read More »
Because of a new, surprisingly smaller mass estimate for a much-studied, nearby brown dwarf, astronomers now regard the familiar object as merely planetlike.Read More »Atmospheric Sciences
