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Impact craters in Europa's icy crust have been used to measure the thickness of the world's shell, leading scientists closer to learning if this frozen moon could host life as we know it.
The Physics Department is presenting the planetarium show, "Cosmic Mashups: Gravity, Galaxies, and Supermassive Black Holes," at 12:00 p.m., Friday, February 9, in the Anderson Hancock Planetarium. The show is part of the 2024 Spring Physics Colloquium.
NASA's Mars Sample Return program is the agency’s highest priority in planetary science, but projected multibillion-dollar overruns have some calling the plan a 'dumpster fire.'
"The Dragonfly team has successfully overcome a number of technical and programmatic challenges in this daring endeavor to gather new science on Titan."
Planetary scientists simulate how haze might be obstructing our view of exoplanet's atmospheres, and potentially alien water.