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Study Finds Lunar Polar Ice Built Up Over Billions of Years

In-situ sampling now looks essential to learn whether usable ice exists.

OSIRIS-REx Sample Shows Bennu’s Water Flowed in Channels, Preserving Fragile Organics

NASA Orbiter Spots Rare New 225-Meter Crater on the Moon

Perseverance Radar Reveals Buried Ancient River Delta Beneath Jezero Crater

Cracks in Bennu’s Boulders Solve OSIRIS‑REx Thermal Mystery

JWST Helps Reveal Sulfur-Rich Magma-Ocean World L 98-59 d

Astronomers Publish Evidence of Planetary Collision Around Sun-Like Star

Astronomers Tie Distant Star’s Chaotic Fading to Evidence of a Planetary Collision

Chinese Study Names Four Rimae Bode Sites for First Crewed Moon Landing

Curiosity Maps Martian ‘Boxwork’ Ridges, Spots Spheroidal Nodules and Confirms Clay–Carbonate Split

Oxford Study Finds Moon’s Magnetic Field Was Mostly Weak Through Its History

Curiosity Confirms Kilometer-Scale 'Boxwork' Ridges as Ancient Groundwater Fractures on Mount Sharp

Curiosity Wraps Six-Month Survey of Mars "Spiderweb" Ridges, Confirms Fractures and Tests for Organics

New Study Maps 1,100+ Young Lunar Faults, Underscoring a Still-Contracting Moon

New Global Map Reveals Young Lunar Fault Ridges, Expanding Moonquake Risk Zones

New Analyses Challenge Purely Nonbiological Origins for Mars Organics

NASA-Led Study Finds Nonbiological Sources Fall Short for Curiosity’s Mars Organics

First Subsurface Lava Tube Detected on Venus in Reprocessed Magellan Radar

New Study Rewinds Curiosity’s Mars Organics to Levels Hard to Explain Geologically

Reanalysis of Galileo Data Finds Ammonia on Europa Near Surface Fractures