19 April 2016
APSS 2016 Was Held in Beijing at the End of February
... physics, solar and stellar astronomy, galactic astronomy, extragalactic astronomy, physical cosmology, aerospace engineering, planetary science, astrobiology, forensic astronomy, archaeoastronomy, and space archaeology. APSS 2016 was a valuable and...
23 December 2015
First new 'ground truth' in 40 years as Chinese rover Yuto presents analysis of moon rocks
... ilmenite crystallises late, this seems strange, adds Alian Wang, research professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University. Finding a rock that is rich in both doesn’t add up. Olivine is a magnesium iron silicate...
04 March 2016
NASA Expected to Make a Decision on InSight Mars Lander in the Near Future
... or so.” If NASA decided to go ahead with InSight, it would need to find that money, most likely within the agency’s planetary sciences program. “It means less money to do something else,” Banerdt said. “Sorry about that.” Banerdt said one option...
18 November 2016
Pluto's heart is an ocean of slushy ice
... mass of water. "At that point, there is no extra mass at Sputnik Planitia," explained Francis Nimmo, professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz and first author of a paper published in Nature. "What happens then is the ice shell gets...
21 September 2020
Jupiter could have 600 moons, a new study says
... by a team of scientists led by Scott Sheppard from the Carnegie Institution for Science. This glut of 79 moons could one day be bumped up to 124 after...be published in The Planetary Science Journal and are available on the pre-print arXiv database....
18 February 2021
Success for NASA as Perseverance lands on Mars
...organic matter and minerals, and PIXL (short for Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry), which maps the ...quote Carl Sagan,” said Gentry Lee, chief engineer for the Planetary Science Directorate at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, “If we see a...
