19 March 2019
New data from InSight shows a contrasting Mars
At the 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference held in Houston, Texas this week,... the most thorough examination yet of our nearest planetary neighbour. Already firmly planted on the ground and hidden under a protective heat shield is InSights’...
20 March 2017
Scientists challenge how planets are defined
... will present a proposed new definition of "planet," and a justification for that definition at the upcoming Lunar and Planetary Science conference which is being held this week in Texas. Runyon and his co-authors argue that the definition of "planet...
May 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
... life in otherwise hostile environments. For a couple of engineers, the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in 2019 opened a window to a world, not too far away, where robots and astronauts alike routinely scoop jagged rock into flying canisters...
17 March 2021
Like Venus, ancient water on Mars is trapped in its crust, new study says
... of the crust,” write the team in their paper published by the journal Science on 16 March and presented the same day at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC). “Irreversible chemical weathering therefore plays a role in regulating the...
