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Education Apr 17, 2025

Exams coming up? Use the science of memory to improve how you revise

"I did revise… it just didn't go in." Sound familiar?

Planetary Sciences Apr 15, 2025

Jupiter's enigmatic weather explained by confirmed 'mushball' phenomenon

Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted slushballs, dubbed "mushballs," raining down like hailstones during a thunderstorm, illuminated by intense ...

Astrobiology Apr 9, 2025

The search for biosignatures in Enceladus' plumes

What kind of mission would be best suited to sample the plumes of Saturn's ocean world, Enceladus, to determine if this intriguing world has the ingredients to harbor life? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th ...

Astronomy Apr 7, 2025

A day at Uranus just got 28 seconds longer

A day at Uranus just got a little longer.

Astronomy Apr 7, 2025

Hubble helps determine Uranus' rotation rate with unprecedented precision

An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have made new measurements of Uranus' interior rotation rate with a novel technique, achieving a level of accuracy 1,000 times greater than previous ...

Planetary Sciences Apr 3, 2025

Studying Uranian moons using passive radar sounding

How can Uranus be used to indirectly study its moons and identify if they possess subsurface oceans? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address as a team of scientists ...

Planetary Sciences Apr 3, 2025

Solar wind compresses Jupiter's magnetosphere, creating a hot region spanning half the planet's circumference

A massive wave of solar wind that squished Jupiter's protective bubble has been detected for the first time.

Planetary Sciences Mar 31, 2025

Hubble's 20-year study of Uranus yields new atmospheric insights

The ice-giant planet Uranus, which travels around the sun tipped on its side, is a weird and mysterious world. Now, in an unprecedented study spanning two decades, researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered ...

Planetary Sciences Mar 27, 2025

Atmospheres of new planets might have unexpected mixtures of hydrogen and water

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't react chemically with each other. But what if some of them do?