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Why NASA is sending a probe to Europa – and what it’s looking for
Seen against the backdrop of Jupiter’s dramatic, swirling atmosphere, Europa might at first appear a bit drab. With…
Saturn’s moon Titan is experiencing coastal erosion from methane seas
The liquid hydrocarbon seas of Titan may have waves NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/University of Idaho Craggy coastlines appear to…
How many moons and moonmoons could we cram into Earth’s orbit?
Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the cosmos…
Jupiter’s moon Io has been a volcanic inferno for billions of years
Io, Jupiter’s innermost moon, is the most volcanically active body in the solar system Joshimer Binas/Alamy Stock Photo…
Mars may have captured and split a comet to create its two moons
Mars has two irregularly shaped moons, an inner moon named Phobos and an outer moon named Deimos NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC/Univ.…
Titan’s sand dunes may be made of smashed up small moons
A radar image of the Shangri-La sand sea on Titan, taken from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/Université Paris-Diderot The…
Perfectly straight ridges may cover the poles of Saturn’s moon Titan
Landforms called yardangs can form on Earth – and they might also be present on Saturn’s moon Titan…
Europa’s seafloor may be impenetrable and inhospitable to life
Europa has an underground ocean, but it might not be as hospitable for life as Earth’s seas are…
The moons of Mars may have been formed in an icy planetary collision
How did Mars acquire its moons? NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems/Texas A&M University The mystery of where Mars’s two…
Europa may have less oxygen to fuel life in its seas than we thought
Jupiter’s moon Europa is covered by an icy shell NASA/JPL-Caltech Jupiter’s moon Europa may be less ripe for…