Tuesday, January 13 2026
•Matt
Martian mudstones from the Jezero crater contain features that improve our understanding of chemical processes on Mars, according to new findings from NASA's Perseverance rover, published in Nature.
Friday, January 9 2026
•Matt
Evidence for a solid inner core in Mars, detected by NASA's InSight mission, is presented in a study published in Nature. It furthers our understanding of the properties and evolution of both Mars and similar planetary bodies.
Wednesday, December 17 2025
•Matt
Evidence of lightning on Mars, detected in sounds and electrical signals captured by NASA's Perseverance rover, is presented in a paper published in Nature.
Tuesday, November 25 2025
•Matt
Explosive volcanic eruptions on Mars may have transported water to equatorial regions where it froze into thick ice, according to computer simulations of the red planet's ancient history by US and Italian researchers.
Monday, June 2 2025
•Matt
Rock and dust samples brought back from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu contain organic matter, including amino acids and all five DNA and RNA bases, as well as salts that formed early in the history of Bennu's parent body, according to a pair of studies by international and Australian researchers.
Friday, March 21 2025
•Matt
Data from NASA's InSight mission suggest Mars has a liquid core similar to Earth's, but European scientists say the core may be solid, at least below a certain temperature.
Thursday, March 20 2025
•Matt
Scientists have successfully used lasers to identify microbe fossils in rocks from Earth, which are like the rocks found on Mars, opening up the possibility of searching for fossils on the Red Planet.
Friday, February 28 2025
•Matt
New analysis of marsquakes, which are similar to earthquakes, could offer clues into how Mars has evolved over billions of years, according to new research from The Australian National University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Wednesday, February 26 2025
•Matt
Even though Saturn's rings appear clean and young, they may be as old as the planet itself according to international researchers. It was previously thought that impacts with small rocky debris travelling through space - called micrometeoroids - would dirty and darken the rings over time, but in 2004 the Cassini spacecraft revealed the rings to be clean and bright suggesting that they are not very old.
Monday, February 24 2025
•Matt
New analysis of marsquakes, which are similar to earthquakes, could offer clues into how Mars has evolved over billions of years, according to new research from The Australian National University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Thursday, February 20 2025
•Matt
The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have occurred during a rare intense wind event, according to international researchers who say this means our scientific understanding of the planet may be flawed.
Tuesday, February 18 2025
•Matt
Overseas researchers report new evidence suggesting the Moon is older than we previously thought thanks to a 'remelting' of the Moon's surface around 4.35 billion years ago that may have masked a far older history.
Monday, February 17 2025
•Matt
New Curtin University-led research has uncovered what may be the oldest direct evidence of ancient hot water activity on Mars, revealing the planet may have been habitable at some point in its past.
Friday, February 7 2025
•Matt
To maximize chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth for the benefit of humanity, NASA has announced a new approach to its Mars Sample Return Program.
Thursday, February 6 2025
•Matt
Io doesn't have a shallow global magma ocean beneath its surface, contrary to what was previously thought, despite the fact that it's the most volcanically active body in the solar system according to international researchers..
Wednesday, February 5 2025
•Matt
Volcanoes on the dark side of the moon mainly erupted about 2.8 billion years ago, according to fragments of basalt - a type of volcanic rock - in soil samples collected by China's Chang'e-6 mission.
Tuesday, February 4 2025
•Matt
Minerals on the surface of Mars could be the last remnants of an ancient sea 3.5 billion years ago, according to international researchers. The team say there are features in the southern Utopia region that could be evidence of a coastline, meaning for a short period in the planet's history it could have had an ocean.
Monday, October 21 2024
•Matt
Pluto's largest moon, Charon, has carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on its surface, according to newly analysed data from the James Webb Space Telescope.
Friday, October 18 2024
•Matt
At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Falcon Heavy has lofted Europa Clipper off planet Earth bound for Jupiter's icy moon.
Wednesday, September 18 2024
•Matt
NASA and SpaceX are targeting a launch period opening October 10 this year for the Europa Clipper mission, which will help scientists determine if one of Jupiter's icy moons could support life.
Sunday, September 15 2024
•Matt
JAXA has ended its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon mission
Monday, September 9 2024
•Matt
US scientists say it may be possible to use metal nanorods made from Martian iron and aluminum to thicken Mars' atmosphere
Tuesday, June 4 2024
•Matt
Volcanic activity on Venus is ongoing and similar to that of Earth, according to new international research published in Nature Astronomy
Saturday, June 1 2024
•Matt
A new instrument to study the Sun and how it creates massive solar eruptions has been selected by NASA.
Thursday, May 30 2024
•Matt
An X-class solar flare has erupted from the Sun's southeastern limb, the tracked location of sunspot group AR3664
Tuesday, May 28 2024
•Matt
A new image from The Hubble Space Telescope of ten million year old star HP Tau, has revealed what the early stages of our star might have looked like.
Saturday, May 25 2024
•Matt
US researchers have proposed a new possible reason as to why our spicy celestial neighbour Venus lost most of its water
Monday, May 20 2024
•Matt
An unusual reduction in the strength of the Earth's magnetic field between 591 and 565 million years ago
Wednesday, May 15 2024
•Matt
A severe burst of coronal mass ejections and solar flares made contact with Earth's atmosphere over the weekend
Monday, March 18 2024
•Matt
Giant whirlpools in warming oceans could run counter to ocean stagnation that some have predicted could impact the Gulf Stream.
Sunday, March 17 2024
•Matt
Jupiter's moon Europa, long thought to be a destination for humans in the outer solar system, might not actually be as habitable as first thought.
