Electrons energized and trapped at Mars were thought to lose energy inside the planet’s magnetosheath, but new research suggests a different explanation of spacecraft data.Read More »Geology & Geophysics
Insights from a new study could spark discoveries about Martian landscapes and also help researchers get to the bottom of canyon formation here on Earth.Read More »Planetary Sciences
The spacecraft crossed the solar system’s edge at a different spot and in a different solar season than Voyager 1. Nevertheless, the border looked much the same in both spots.Read More »
The same algorithms that help control self-driving cars and speech-to-text functionality have helped build a virtual instrument to study the Sun.Read More »Planetary Sciences
In 2018, four massive storms formed near the planet’s north pole, interacting with each other and affecting a full latitudinal band.Read More »Planetary Sciences
Future space missions will further our knowledge of tidal heating and orbital resonances, processes thought to create spectacular volcanism and oceans of magma or water on other worlds.Read More »Space Science & Space Physics
The first in situ measurement of the pressure at the edge of the solar system reveals that there’s still a lot we don’t know about what sets the size of the heliosphere.Read More »Planetary Sciences
