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What type of lander could touch down on Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io? This is what a recent paper presented at the AIAA 2025 Regional Student Conference hopes to address as a team of student engineers ...

Io isn’t just another moon, it’s the most volcanically active body in the entire solar system. Orbiting Jupiter, Io is ...

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The bottom line is that the fact that fire is so tightly bound to Earth is a reminder of how special our planet is. Every ...

NASA unveiled a new discovery inside our solar system. We had only seen these big lakes filled with water on Earth - but this ...

NASA’s Juno Mission will soon be coming to an end. Launched in 2011, the four-ton probe and its wide solar arrays arrived at Jupiter in 2016. Its mission? Look beneath the dense, forbidding clouds of ...

When I see planets in the night sky, I think of them as old friends. I know, I know — I need to get out more, but my oldest ...

A team led by the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets at the University of Montreal publishes the most precise study to date of the planetary system around the star LP 98-59. This ...

China's Chang'e 6 mission returned the first-ever far-side lunar samples, revealing new insights into the moon's interior.

Scientists have long been fascinated by icy moons and their unique volcanic environments. So, a team of researchers came ...

In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini trained their telescopes on Saturn and uncovered a ...