09 November 2020
More woe for Arecibo as a second cable breaks causing more damage
..., the Arecibo Observatory has been used by scientists around the world to conduct research in the areas of atmospheric sciences, planetary sciences, radio astronomy and radar astronomy for more than 50 years. Since it was built, the facility has...
23 December 2020
Harmful stellar flares might not prevent life on exoplanets after all, new study says
... fields helping deflect their stellar winds,” says Daniel Horton, an assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences in Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and the study's senior author. Their study was no easy task as flares can...
03 June 2021
Nelson announces NASA’s return to Venus
... to a NASA description posted online the same day. NASA describes Discovery missions as “smaller” than its “flagship” planetary science missions. Discovery missions include the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and InSight Mars lander. DAVINCI+ stands for...
12 June 2020
NASA picks Astrobotic to fly VIPER to the Moon
...in Washington. The VIPER mission is part of SMDs Planetary Science Division. NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon...the VIPER mission, as well as leading the mission’s science, systems engineering, real-time rover surface operations and ...
16 September 2020
Breakthrough Initiatives to fund a study into the possibility of aerial life in Venus' atmosphere
... world-class physicists, astronomers, astrobiologists, chemists and engineers, led by Dr. Sara Seager, Professor of Planetary Science, Physics and Aerospace Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The group will investigate the...
11 June 2021
Then there were 3: ESA selects revolutionary Venus mission EnVision
... announced NASA-led Venus missions, we will have an extremely comprehensive science programme at this enigmatic planet well into the next decade.” A key question in planetary science is why, despite being roughly the same size and composition, our...
