Search results for moons

Space Exploration Jul 6, 2018

Data from Juno shows Jupiter moons causing footprints in aurorae

A team of researchers with members from Italy, the U.S. and Belgium has discovered that two of Jupiter's moons cause "footprints" in the planet's aurorae. In their paper published in the journal Science, the researchers describe ...

Space Exploration May 3, 2018

Mineral in lunar meteorite suggests water was once on the moon

A team of researchers led by Masahiro Kayama of Tohoku University has found evidence in a lunar meteorite that water once existed on the moon. In their paper published on the open access site Science Advances, the team describes ...

Space Exploration Apr 20, 2018

Simulations suggest Saturn may have helped create Jupiter's big moons

A team of researchers from France and the U.S. has created a computer simulation of the development of the solar system focusing on Jupiter and the origins of its moons. In their paper uploaded to the arXiv preprint server, ...

Space Exploration Apr 18, 2018

Martian moons model indicates formation following large impact

Southwest Research Institute scientists posit a violent birth of the tiny Martian moons Phobos and Deimos, but on a much smaller scale than the giant impact thought to have resulted in the Earth-Moon system. Their work shows ...

Space Exploration Sep 6, 2017

Study of Uranus suggests some of its moons are on a collision course

(Phys.org)—A trio of researchers, two with the University of Idaho, the other with Wellesley College, has found evidence suggesting that two pairs of Uranus's moons are on a collision course. Robert Chancia, Matthew Hedman ...

Space Exploration Aug 21, 2017

Analysis of a 'rusty' lunar rock suggests the moon's interior is dry

The moon is likely very dry in its interior according to a new study from researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, published August 21, 2017 in the Proceedings of the National ...

Space Exploration Jul 31, 2017

Gallium in lunar samples explains loss of moon's easily vaporized elements

A pair of researchers with Institut Universitaire de France has found more evidence of a large evaporative event in the moon's past. In their paper published on the open access site Science Advances, Chizu Kato and Frédéric ...

Space Exploration Jan 31, 2017

Moon found to be periodically showered with oxygen ions from Earth

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Japan, examining data from that country's moon-orbiting Kaguya spacecraft, has found evidence of oxygen from Earth's atmosphere making its way to ...

Astronomy Jan 30, 2017

Astronomers detect hydrogen corona of Jupiter's moon Europa

(Phys.org)—Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers have spotted an atomic hydrogen corona around Jupiter's icy moon Europa. The discovery which could improve our understanding of Europa's tenuous atmosphere ...

Space Exploration Oct 31, 2016

New theory explains how the moon got there

Earth's Moon is an unusual object in our solar system, and now there's a new theory to explain how it got where it is, which puts some twists on the current "giant impact" theory. The work is published Oct. 31 in the journal ...

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