Planetary science Archives

NASA’s Juno takes the temperature of Jupiter’s fiery moon Io – NASA 0
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- July 22, 2026
Read this story in Spanish. here. NASA’s Juno mission has provided the first measurements of the temperature beneath the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io, revealing significant warming within the shallow subsurface of the solar system’s most volcanically active world. Data collected during two close flybys also show that most of Io’s surface is remarkably smooth
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NASA study finds near-Earth asteroid is actually a comet – NASA 0
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- July 16, 2026
New research led by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has revealed the identity of a puzzling near-Earth object by precisely tracking its movement through space and using powerful observatories that image faint celestial objects. This object has a split personality: Previous images had revealed no obvious comet-like activity, suggesting it could
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NASA’s Perseverance rover reads records of impacts on ancient Mars – NASA 0
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- July 15, 2026
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has discovered evidence that a 245-foot (75-meter-thick) pile of ancient rock on the rim of Jezero Crater was built by repeated asteroid impacts. This sequence of layered bedrock, dubbed the “Broom Point Member” by the rover’s science team, is likely more than 3.9 billion years old, making it some of the
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NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft awakens from hibernation in good health – NASA Science 0

After its longest hibernation period of nearly a year, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has emerged in good health and is ready to begin transmitting scientific data collected in the distant Kuiper Belt, far beyond Pluto. On June 23, flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, confirmed that New Horizons,