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Much like the American frontier, whoever can reach the land first can plant their flag—and define what houses on the moon ...
Over the last few years, the term "Goldilocks zone" has come to be widely used to describe the range of distances from a star ...
Over the last few years, the term "Goldilocks zone" has come to be widely used to describe the range of distances from a star ...
Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure—and reveal how little is understood about ...
The newest analysis has revealed that this difference is not skin-deep, but profound. The Moon’s interior on the nearside is different from that on the far side.
Although the moon and the asteroid Vesta are very different, two NASA studies use the same technique to reveal new details about the interiors of both. In the lunar study, published in the journal ...
Our moon was once a ball of lava much like Jupiter's super-volcanic moon Io In the early solar system, a massive impact shaped both Earth and the moon. A protoplanet smashed into our young planet ...
Moon rocks, on the other hand, can be more complicated to interpret, and have been providing a variety of ages. Together, the two processes suggest the moon is about 4.35 billion years old.
One of the big surprises: Despite the moon's cooled crust, the data shows Io maintains liquid hot lava just below the ground. In fact, about 10 percent of the surface has lava underneath it.
But now, it appears that Io’s hell has vanished — or rather, it was never there to begin with. During recent flybys of the volcanic moon by NASA’s Juno spacecraft, scientists measured Io’s ...
The acid yellow moon Io that orbits Jupiter may be less than 30% the size of Earth, but is considered the most volcanic body in our solar system. As demonstrated by explosive news from NASA on ...