The ESA’s Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft watched as a superstorm that ravaged Earth also struck the Red Planet.
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Newly released Mars images offer a detailed look at one of the Red Planet’s oldest, most heavily cratered regions, a landscape shaped by billions of years of impacts, volcanism and erosion.
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The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed our lunar companion is safe for now from an asteroid impact.
Tests involving growing chickpea plants in lunar regolith treated with vermicompost and fungi yielded harvestable crops — but are they edible?
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Ganymede’s auroras splinter into small, bright patches — structures that mirror features seen in Earth’s own auroral displays.
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By fertilizing inorganic regolith with organic human waste that has been processed through bioreactors, future astronauts living on Mars could be able to create their own organic soil.
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There are only a few known fields of tektites in the entire world, and scientists just found another in Brazil.
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has transformed new views of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus into immersive soundscapes, turning planetary data into audio you can hear.
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Iron isotopes show that salty seawater pockets beneath the ice were as cold as −15°C.
Hunt for the names of the many moons surrounding our solar system’s eight planets.