09 February 2016
Are Earth-like worlds built like Earth?
... and team also found that planets larger than approximately six Earth masses contain significant fractions of volatiles or hydrogen/helium gas and that these planets appear to have a diversity of compositions that is not well-explained...
01 November 2016
New twist on Moon formation helps explain its weird orbit
... composition help substantiate this theory, as the Moon is made of almost the same stuff as Earth, minus some volatile compounds that evaporated long ago. But this one simple feature makes the Moon very distinct...
30 December 2016
NEOWISE spots two new objects heading our way
... asteroids and comets is a blurry one; perhaps over time this object has lost the majority of the volatiles that linger on or just under its surface." Despite its mysterious ancestry, the trajectory of 2016 WF9 is well...
30 April 2018
NASA cancels its lunar Resource Prospector mission
... U.S Presidents determined plans to put U.S astronauts back on the Moon, as the rover’s main purpose was to search for volatiles such as hydrogen, oxygen and water - elements that would be essential for any explorers hoping to stay long...
20 August 2018
Galaxy should be teeming with water-worlds say researchers
...-Earth type planets made up of material similar to our own world, while the other group would be classified as volatile-rich worlds; or to use their more common name, water-worlds. The team suggests that over a quarter...
12 December 2018
OSIRIS-REx discovers ingredients for water on Bennu
... formation of the solar system, is an excellent specimen for the OSIRIS-REx mission to study the composition of primitive volatiles and organics,” said Amy Simon, OVIRS deputy instrument scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt...
