Space

The icy satellites of the outer solar system pose numerous puzzles, one of which is sometimes referred to as the Mimas-Enceladus paradox (e.g., Czechowski &…
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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 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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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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Molten rock (magma) is generated in planetary interiors and rises toward the surface, sometimes cooling and freezing before it gets to the surface (forming intrusions),…
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In the early stages of thermodynamics, researchers focused on the study of heat and work transfer. Thermal radiation, which is to be considered in various…
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Discovered by Galileo Galilei over 400 years ago and imaged by the Voyager 2 in 1979, Jupiter’s icy moon Europa has long been a source…
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Looking up at the Moon, you might notice it’s crisscrossed by bright streaks that originate from some of the younger craters that cover the surface….
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Investigating the birth of the Solar System is a bit like investigating the crime scene of a “cold case,” where the passage of time, here…
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The 23.4° tilt of the Earth’s rotation axis with respect to the ecliptic plane is the reason for our pronounced seasons on Earth. The ecliptic…
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