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Planetary Sciences Feb 7, 2024

For your processing pleasure: The sharpest pictures of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io in a generation

NASA's Juno spacecraft has just made the closest flybys of Jupiter's moon Io that any spacecraft has carried out in more than 20 years. An instrument on this spacecraft called "JunoCam" has returned spectacular, high-resolution ...

Planetary Sciences Feb 6, 2024

NASA's Juno probe makes another close flyby of Io

The Juno spacecraft has revealed some fascinating things about Jupiter since it began exploring the system on July 4th, 2016. Not only is it the first robotic mission to study Jupiter up close while orbiting it since the ...

Molecular & Computational biology Feb 2, 2024

Scientists successfully simulate protein complex that initiates fertilization

Researchers at ETH Zurich recently developed highly realistic simulations of the proteins on sperm and egg cells coupling together before they fuse. These findings enabled the research team to solve several mysteries of fertilization ...

Cell & Microbiology Jan 24, 2024

Scientists identify potential new method for diagnosing male infertility

Researchers have discovered a new phenomenon where sperm from mice can induce non-reproductive cells from hamsters to fuse and form a syncytia—a cell with multiple nuclei.

Astronomy Dec 29, 2023

NASA's Juno to get close look at Jupiter's volcanic moon Io on Dec. 30

NASA's Juno spacecraft will on Saturday, Dec. 30, make the closest flyby of Jupiter's moon Io that any spacecraft has made in over 20 years. Coming within roughly 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) from the surface of the most ...

Astronomy Nov 21, 2023

Global view of Io's volcanic activity suggests that tidal heating is concentrated within its upper mantle

A team of volcanologists and planetary scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, the University of Arizona, and Arizona State University has found via study of a newly created global ...

Space Exploration Nov 20, 2023

Juice burns hard toward first-ever Earth–moon flyby

On 17 November 2023, ESA's Juice spacecraft carried out one of the largest and most important maneuvers in its eight-year journey to Jupiter.

Planetary Sciences Nov 9, 2023

Juno mission finds Jupiter's winds penetrate in cylindrical layers

Gravity data collected by NASA's Juno mission indicates Jupiter's atmospheric winds penetrate the planet in a cylindrical manner, parallel to its spin axis. A paper on the findings was recently published in the journal Nature ...

Astronomy Nov 6, 2023

Searching for the supernova neutrino background to the universe

It's a sobering statement that stars like the sun, more accurately all stars will die eventually—yes, even the sun. Don't panic, though, we still have a good few billion years to go so you will get to the end of this article. ...

Astronomy Oct 31, 2023

Salts and organics observed on Ganymede's surface by NASA's Juno

Data collected by NASA's Juno mission indicates a briny past may be bubbling to the surface on Jupiter's largest moon.

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