“Our findings suggest that Jupiter’s moons did not form as chemically pristine worlds,” Mousis said. “Instead, they may have accreted, or accumulated, a significant inventory of COMs at birth, ...

Jupiter’s icy moons may have been seeded with the chemical ingredients for life from the very beginning. An international ...

Saturn’s reign in the evening sky comes to an end on March 25, when Saturn passes behind the Sun (conjunction). Saturn then swings into the morning sky, and will reappear in the east at dawn during ...

A total lunar eclipse is the highlight of the month. For planetary action, Jupiter is well placed most of the night and there are many events involving its Galilean moons. Soon after sunset, ...

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New spacecraft data from Pioneer, Voyager and Juno show that Jupiter is slightly smaller and more flattened than earlier estimates, refining the planet’s measured size and shape.

Astronomers first spotted comet 3I/Atlas in data collected by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in ...

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Although astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets, the number of confirmed exomoons—and exorings—is still zero. But ...

On a chilly morning at Marlboro Elementary, three eighth graders gather around a table strewn with notebooks, laptops, and a stack of planetary data sheets. They’re not just ...

Water ice on Mars, bubbling gas on a distant star, a snow-covered island, and a pre-planetary nebula are featured this week. Plus, a look back at an image of Mars taken by the Dawn spacecraft during a ...

When did Jupiter’s Galilean moons first contain the ingredients for life? This is what complementary studies published in The ...