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What new technologies or methods can be developed for more efficient in-situ planetary subsurface analyses? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference ...

Europa, Jupiter’s mysterious moon, has long intrigued scientists with hints of a subsurface ocean. Recent high-resolution images from past missions like Galileo and Voyager reveal a surface dominated ...

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory director Laurie Leshin discussed various outer space endeavors in an earth and planetary ...

NASA’s Power to Explore Challenge asks students to create a mission to a moon using radioisotope power systems.

Authorities say millions of coins spilled onto a Texas highway this week after a tractor-trailer hauling $800,000 in dimes ...

The telescope may well have outdone itself by revealing evidence of life on a world about 120 light years from Earth.

UCSB Physics Professor Roger Freedman held our attention three years ago as he explained the wonders and understanding that ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

View a brilliant morning star, enjoy dark skies during New Moon, and take in plenty of deep-sky targets in the sky this week.

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