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NASA’s Juno found Io’s temperature rising by more than 40 degrees Fahrenheit within the upper few metres everywhere it sampled—not merely at the volcanic hotspots visible from space. The heat may be flowing broadly through the crust or escaping from young lava and buried vents, giving scientists their first look beneath the surface of a rocky moon.
5+ hour, 25+ min ago (1499+ words) Juno's microwave radiometer found a steep temperature increase below every region of Io sampled during two flybys, pointing to broad heat flow or concealed young lava and vents. By Deep Field · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 14, 2026 · How we edit…...
Opportunity’s solar panels were mysteriously getting cleaner long before the rover ever saw the suspected culprit: it did not photograph its first Martian dust devil until six and a half years after landing.
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (1267+ words) Opportunity’s changing power output recorded repeated wind-cleaning events years before its camera caught a dust devil. The six-and-a-half-year gap reveals the difference between detecting an effect and identifying its cause. By Mission Notes · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 10, 2026 · How…...
Olympus Mons grew so massive that parts of its lower flanks catastrophically collapsed, sending broken rock sliding hundreds of kilometres across the Martian plains—possibly lubricated when hot lava melted buried ice.
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (718+ words) Orbital evidence links Olympus Mons's aureole to immense flank failures. Water or ice may explain the long runout, but lava-driven melting remains one proposed mechanism....
About 70 young stars sit inside one dark knot of gas in the Carina Nebula: ESA's Webb Picture of the Month for August 2026 shows the Treasure Chest globule, 7,500 light years off, lit by a 19-solar-mass O-type star
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (362+ words) A stellar nursery the size of a city block holds a monster star waiting to reshape everything around it. By Deep Field · Edited by Justin Brown Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit The nickname belongs to the cloud, not the star....
In 2008, a team hauled 1,478 lunar data tapes and four obsolete drives to NASA Ames to recover pictures from the 1960s — and the laboratory where they restored those original views of the Moon in greater detail was an abandoned McDonald’s restaurant.
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (309+ words) The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project restored old tape drives inside a former McDonald’s to retrieve detail preserved in recordings from the 1960s....
Astronomers long expected the Milky Way and Andromeda to collide in about 4.5 billion years — but a 2025 study in Nature Astronomy, using Hubble and Gaia data, estimated only a roughly 50–50 chance of the galaxies merging within the next 10 billion years.
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (810+ words) The 2025 estimate depended on uncertain motions and neighbouring galaxies. A 2026 follow-up put the merger probability higher, showing why the forecast remains sensitive to the measurements. By Deep Field · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 7, 2026 · How we edit The Milky Way’s…...
Betelgeuse's northeast hotspot held its spot from 2015 to 2023, outliving the large convective structures current models predict
1+ week, 21+ hour ago (20+ words) The red supergiant's stubborn hotspot defies everything astronomers thought they knew about how massive stars churn their surfaces....
Nearly every element in your body except hydrogen was forged by stars—the calcium in your bones and much of the iron in your blood came through ancient supernovae, while the hydrogen flowing through you was born before the first star existed.
1+ week, 1+ day ago (982+ words) Hydrogen predates the stars, while generations of stellar fusion, supernovae and galactic recycling supplied the heavier elements now arranged into living bodies....
An 18-year-old high school senior from Pasadena wrote machine-learning code to comb 200 billion entries of raw infrared sky data, sorted what came back, and in 2025 found 1.5 million new potential objects
1+ week, 3+ day ago (85+ words) A teenager weaponized a decade of archival telescope data to unearth 1.5 million celestial mysteries that professional astronomers had missed....
A Soviet probe survived the journey to Venus and began testing the surface of another world — only for its soil instrument to come down on a discarded piece of the spacecraft itself and send the mistaken reading all the way back to Earth
1+ week, 5+ day ago (425+ words) The Soviet probe that conquered Venus's hellish surface may have been undone by its own debris. By Space Daily Editorial Team Published September 1, 2026 · How we edit Of all the ways to be humbled by another planet, tripping over your own…...