New analysis of data from the Apollo era shows that moonquakes occur close to visible faults, which may matter when setting up a moon base.
- Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University
There’s a mysterious lack of small bodies beyond Neptune, but a ‘snowman-shaped’ object may help explain why.
Pendarat Chang'e 4 termasuk biosfer bersegel 3 kg di mana benih kentang dan telur ulat sutra akan didorong untuk berkecambah dan menetas.
The moon’s far side looks redder than its near side. An expert explains what the actual colour is.
China has become the first to land on the far side of the moon. And unlike previous uncrewed moon landings, it relied on sophisticated technology rather than luck.
Naming features on other worlds is a trickier issue than you might think.
It will take more energy to get the BebiColombo spacecraft inro a stable orbit around Mercury than it would to send it all the way to Pluto.
A mysterious cone has developed due to unusual volcanic activity on Hawaii.
Red spots suggest Mercury may have formed far away from the sun.
Clay on early Mars could have formed under hot and steamy conditions, challenging the idea that it was created just like that on Earth.
International plan for a lunar space station may lag behind efforts by private companies.
Scientists used to believe that snowfall could never reach the ground.
The volcanoes would be a great place t to search for fossilised microbes.
Operating the two spacecraft that make up BebpiColombo will be harder than rocket science, says a member of its science team.
Cassini is about to crash into Saturn to avoid contaminating its habitable moon Enceladus.
New findings make it hard to imagine a more important goal for solar system exploration than searching for microbial life in Enceladus’ internal sea.
If there’s life on one of the Earth’s seven sisters, chances are it has spread to all of them.
The moon may be slightly older than previously thought, suggests a new study.
La confirmation du jaillissement de panaches de vapeur d’eau sur Europe, lune glacée de la planète Jupiter, relance les spéculations sur la vie extraterrestre.
There’s now strong evidence that Europa might be a worthwhile place to search for life.
Trapped gas could be tainting the north pole of Pluto’s moon Charon dark red.
Scientists in Japan have discovered a way to ‘hear’ storms on the other side of the planet and use them to study the Earth’s crust.
Many images of planets have been manipulated. So have we seen their true colours? Not always, it turns out. But Jupiter’s red spot really is red.
How to view Mercury’s rare move across the face of the sun.
A new theory could change our understanding of the moons in our solar system – and the genesis of life itself.
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