Media What’s Hot This Week September 10, 2024 Check in several times a day for word about news items appearing on our feeds. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Defies Deep Time April 23, 2024 New photos of Io are in from Juno, prompting discussions of time. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Mars Volcano Recently Erupted May 11, 2021 A 20-mile volcanic fissure on Mars may be a recent eruption. Scientists are considering the possibility that Mars is still active. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Venus Is Erupting July 20, 2020 If new indirect observations are correct, Venus is an active planet today with huge volcanoes. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Saturn, the Bringer of Youth December 20, 2018 More discoveries of youthful phenomena contradict Gustav Holst's musical tribute to "Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age." CONTINUE READING
Solar System Pluto Rivals Earth in Geological Complexity September 14, 2018 Call it what you will, Pluto is a planet of surprises. Its active geology is second only to Earth's, say two planetary scientists. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Pluto Shock Rebounds October 16, 2015 The first research paper from the New Horizons team focuses and amplifies the shock waves coming from the first images in July. CONTINUE READING
Dating Methods Pluto Is Young July 15, 2015 The New Horizons science team is stunned by surface features on Pluto and its large moon Charon that cannot be billions of years old. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Enceladus Geysers Still Unexplained July 31, 2014 The number of geysers has topped a hundred on Saturn's overactive moon. How could they be sustained for billions of years? CONTINUE READING
Solar System Europa Joins the Geyser Club December 12, 2013 Hints of watery plumes have been detected on Europa – like Enceladus, at its south pole, too. CONTINUE READING
Solar System Active Moons Challenge Old-Age Beliefs December 3, 2007 The best planetary scientists in the world, constrained within their chosen billions-of-years mindset, have many questions and few answers. CONTINUE READING