Space

More than 3000 planets outside our Solar system have been discovered. Around 20 of them are “Goldilocks planets,” planets that orbit the region surrounding a…
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Numerical modeling of the nitrogen cycle on Pluto explains the distribution, color, geology, and morphology of the different nitrogen ice deposits observed. On July 14,…
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The advent of newspace and commercial space (SpaceX, Blue Origin, etc.) in the early 2000s has brought about the resurgence of the decades-old concept of…
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The moon is considered to have experienced a magma ocean, with whole-body melting. Differentiation and crystallization of the melt formed today’s crustal Moon. Major elemental…
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Our solar system contains a myriad of bodies with sizes ranging from a few meters to hundreds of kilometers. We call them asteroids. The most numerous…
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Many mid-latitude impact craters on Mars are filled to variable degrees with a combination of ice, dust, and rocky debris. Ring-shaped surface features visible in…
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Life as we know it is based on water and organic compounds. Studying how water and organics form, evolve and move within our Solar System…
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Photographs of the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko show its unexpected shape: two ellipsoidal blocks called the Head and Body, connected by a “neck.” On the…
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The seventh most distant planet in our Solar System, Uranus, is orbited by the mid-sized regular satellites Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon (Figure 1)….
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The Jovian moon Ganymede possesses an internally generated, present-day magnetic field. This finding was one of the most unexpected ones during the Galileo mission back in…
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The poles of Mars host massive amounts of water ice in the form of polar caps, much like Earth’s Antarctica. In the north, a ~1.5…
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