Solar Wind Ion Sputtering from Airless Planetary Bodies: New Insights into the Surface Binding Energies for Elements in Plagioclase Feldspars

VLT Study Reveals Dramatic Nickel Emission and CN Outgassing in Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) have conducted spectroscopic observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1) as it

Primordial mini-moons may explain meteorite composition

Study: Early Earth's Asteroid Impacts May Have Enabled Prebiotic Chemistry

A new study published in AGU Advances examines how asteroid and planetesimal impacts during Earth's Hadean and Archean eons (4.6 to 3.5 bill

Scientists adapt ecological analysis methods to detect potential life on icy moons like Enceladus and Europa

Scientists are using ecological methods to study icy moons like Saturn's Enceladus and Jupiter's Europa, which likely have subsurface oceans

Study suggests single asteroid impact delivered Mercury's water ice in one Mercurian day

New simulations suggest that a single massive asteroid impact on Mercury, similar to the one that created the Hokusai crater, may have rapid

Study examines possibility of Earth bacteria reaching Europa's subsurface ocean via dust particles

This paper explores the hypothesis that dust particles containing living bacteria could be ejected from Earth and travel through space to re