planetary science
NASA Study Finds Life-Sparking Energy Source and Molecule at Enceladus
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Dr. Thomas Hughes
A study zooms in on data that NASA’s Cassini gathered at Saturn’s icy moon and finds evidence of a key ingredient for ...
NASA’s Psyche captures its “first light,” continues testing other instruments
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Dr. Thomas Hughes
15 On Dec. 4, the cameras of NASA’s Psyche spacecraft took their first images 26 million kilometers away from Earth. This milestone, ...
NASA Telescope Reveals Clues to Elusive ‘Size Gap’ in Planets
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Dr. Thomas Hughes
Exoplanets pushing their atmospheres away may explain a gap in exoplanet masses, according to a team of researchers that recently studied data ...
Researchers Find Evidence of a Lost Planet, Theia, Deep Within Earth’s Core, Shedding Light on the Moon’s Mysterious Origins
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Dr. Thomas Hughes
In a recent study, scientists at the California Institute of Technology say that two massive, iron-rich structures lying close to Earth’s core ...
