Carbon monoxide high in the atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune points to very different amounts of deep oxygen, hinting that the two ice giants were built from material gathered in different parts of the young Solar System.
A new study matches the stars of Van Gogh’s The Starry Night to the Hyades cluster and dates the painted sky to a dawn around 22 July 1889, not June.
Squeezed beyond 222 gigapascals between two diamonds, water ice abandons its neat cubic lattice, a complication for models of the water-rich interiors of Uranus and Neptune.
A single tremor recorded by NASA’s InSight lander in 2021 has been traced to faults 20 to 40 km beneath Valles Marineris, showing that the largest canyon in the Solar System is still geologically active.
A new map of more than 10,000 young lunar faults shows the Moon has lost about 45 metres of radius in the last 400 to 800 million years. Because the Moon is a single plate, those faults, and the moonquakes they bring, can appear almost anywhere.
I spent a considerable amount of time reflecting on what I can contribute as my first post on The Astro Bulletin – for context, I’m a philosophy graduate who’s passionate about the environmental sciences, along with the earths place in our broader cosmos. In recent years whilst conducting my research
