Category: Planetary Science

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – For the first time, an instrument to find planets light years away was used on an object in the Solar System, in

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Hayabusa2 space mission by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) returned home with samples of the asteroid Ryugu that orbits the Sun

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – On Nov. 1, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by not just its first asteroid, but its first two. The first images returned by

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In the 1980s, geophysicists made a startling discovery: two continent-sized blobs of unusual material were found deep near the center of the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers from the University of Leicester have confirmed for the first time the presence of an infrared aurora on the cold, outer

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Data collected by NASA’s Juno mission indicates a briny past may be bubbling to the surface on Jupiter’s largest moon. NASA’s Juno

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Simulations produced by a Brown-led research team offer evidence that Venus once had plate tectonics — a finding that opens the door

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new sounding rocket mission is headed to space to understand how explosive stellar deaths lay the groundwork for new star systems.

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Mars’s liquid iron core is smaller and denser than previously thought. Not only is it smaller, but it is also surrounded by

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – – Led by researchers at the Field Museum and the University of Glasgow, the study was made possible by Northwestern University’s atom-probe

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The spacecraft is targeting an Oct. 13 liftoff atop a Falcon Heavy rocket. Its destination, a metal-rich asteroid, may tell us more

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The Milky Way is often depicted as a flat, spinning disk of dust, gas, and stars. But if you could zoom out

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – An international team of scientists have discovered a huge spike in radiocarbon levels 14,300 years ago by analyzing ancient tree-rings found in

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A striking orange and blue streak fills this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble’s visible and infrared capabilities captured this

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – On a clear night, with a decent amateur telescope, Saturn and its series of remarkable rings can be seen from Earth’s surface.

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers believe that Jupiter’s moon Europa is one of a handful of worlds in our solar system that could potentially harbor conditions

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A team including Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. Raluca Rufu recently calculated that most of the Moon’s permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) are at

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Three billion years ago, amid one of the last wet periods on Mars, powerful debris flows carried mud and boulders down the

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – On August 23 the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully landed a spacecraft on the moon’s south pole, a location that has

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Chromium hydride (CrH), a molecule that’s relatively rare and particularly sensitive to temis useful as a “thermoperature, meter for stars,” according to astronomer

MessageToEagle.com – In May 2020, some unusual rocks containing distinctive greenish crystals were found in the Erg Chech sand sea, a dune-filled region of the Sahara Desert in

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The largest storm in the solar system, a 10,000-mile-wide anticyclone called the Great Red Spot, has decorated Jupiter’s surface for hundreds of

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Earth is rapidly warming and scientists are developing a variety of approaches to reduce the effects of climate change. Credit: Brooks Bays/UH

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A young planet whirling around a petulant red dwarf star is changing in unpredictable ways orbit-by-orbit. This artist’s illustration shows a planet

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Earth was created faster than we thought and this makes the chance of other habitable planets in the Universe more likely, researchers say.