Scientists have mapped thousands of young tectonic ridges across the Moon, showing it is still slowly shrinking. These ridges may mark previously unknown sources of moonquakes.
A small mare ridge in Northeast Mare Imbrium taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University Scientists have produced the first global map and ...
Southwest Research Institute was part of an international team that demonstrated how complex organic molecules (COMs), key ...
In a new study published in The Planetary Science Journal, scientists from the University of Chicago and Jet Propulsion Laboratory have uncovered unexpected findings about Jupiter’s atmosphere. The ...
An astrophysicist at the University of Western Ontario finds that the odds of the asteroid 99942 Apophis striking Earth are slightly higher than previously thought. In his study, published in The ...
The Solar System remains a unique natural laboratory for exploring the processes that govern planetary formation, evolution and dynamics. Contemporary research continues to refine our understanding of ...
An asteroid is the most likely reason the dinosaurs went extinct—but could something similar happen to us? A new study has compared the likelihood of a devastating asteroid impact to other causes of ...
Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic geological feature of tectonic activity. The team’s discovery of how SMRs form ...
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