Terrestrial caves offer scientific and engineering insights and serve as testing grounds for future forays by humans and robots into caves on other worlds.Read More »
Aliens spying on us from afar is a common science fiction trope. Soon we might know what E.T. would see through a telescope. And that information could help identify other Earth-like planets. Read More »Geology & Geophysics
By modeling over 4 billion years of the Moon’s impact history, scientists estimate that the lunar poles may harbor billions of metric tons of subsurface ice. Read More »Atmospheric Sciences
Saturn’s moon Enceladus boasts fierce tiger stripes around its south pole, a mystery that has long puzzled scientists. New research explores the stripes by examining how the moon’s ice breaks.Read More »Space Science & Space Physics
Updating a model developed during the Voyager flybys will enable better mission planning and a deeper understanding of Juno data.Read More »Planetary Sciences
A new tool to measure the magnetic signatures of big meteorites could not only aid NASA’s mission to Psyche; it could also help solve mysteries about how magnetic fields formed in our early solar system.Read More »Planetary Sciences
A new workflow improves the process of creating massive, accurate mosaics from spacecraft-captured images of a planet’s surface.Read More »Climate Change