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Young Mars Volcanoes Show Long-Lived, Evolving Magma Systems

Orbital mapping with mineral data reveals a multi-phase eruptive history at the Pavonis fissure.

NASA-Led Study Finds Nonbiological Sources Fall Short for Curiosity’s Mars Organics

Bennu Samples Show Amino Acids Likely Formed in Icy, Radioactive Environments

Study Finds Planetary Oxygen at Birth Controls Life-Critical Phosphorus and Nitrogen

Juno Data Refine Jupiter’s Size, Finding the Giant Slightly Smaller and More Flattened

Simulations Put 2024 YR4’s 2032 Lunar-Impact Odds at About 4 Percent

Lab-Made Cosmic Dust Matches Space Signatures in Peer-Reviewed Study

Webb Links Protostellar Bursts to Crystal Formation and Outflows in EC 53

Apollo Soil Study Finds Meteorites Supplied Only a Small Share of Earth’s Water

NASA Study of Apollo Moon Soil Finds Meteorites Supplied Only a Small Share of Earth’s Water

New Model Shows Salty Europa Ice Could Sink, Ferrying Nutrients to Its Hidden Ocean

Mars-Mass Iron Bar Discovered Inside the Ring Nebula by New WEAVE Spectrograph

High-Resolution Mars Mapping Points to Arctic-Sized Ocean 3 Billion Years Ago

Far-Side Moon Samples Link South Pole–Aitken Impact to Lunar Asymmetry

XFEL Studies Confirm Mixed Crystal Structures in Superionic Water

MAVEN Still Silent as Data Point to Unexpected Spin and Possible Orbit Change

JWST Finds Strong Evidence of a Thick Atmosphere on Molten Super-Earth TOI-561 b

Webb Data Point to Thick Atmosphere on Ultra‑Hot Super‑Earth TOI‑561 b

NASA Still Without Contact With MAVEN Mars Orbiter After Dec. 6 Blackout

JWST Maps Giant Dual Helium Tails Streaming From Ultra-Hot Jupiter WASP-121 b