17 March 2021
Like Venus, ancient water on Mars is trapped in its crust, new study says
... hydrated minerals whose formation certainly decreased water availability over time," says co-author Bethany Ehlmann, professor of planetary science and associate director for the Keck Institute for Space Studies. This vast retention of ancient water...
12 November 2021
Near-Earth asteroid might be a piece of the Moon
.... Its orbit is also not typical of near-Earth asteroids, according to study co-author Renu Malhotra, a Univerity of Arizona planetary sciences professor who led the orbit analysis portion of the study. "It is very unlikely that a garden-variety near...
22 June 2021
The NASA Kepler Mission
... the two missions have made “fundamental, paradigm-changing advances in essentially every area of astrophysics and planetary science”. The Kepler spacecraft was, in effect, a planet hunter. From its launch in 2009, it continuously monitored the...
27 May 2016
Scientists reveal Mars is emerging from an ice age
...'s lead author. Smith led the work while at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, but is now at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona. The retreat and regrowth of polar ice on Mars is due to the increased tilt of the...
13 September 2016
Scientists prove the Moon was created by a vaporised Earth
... compositions. "So people decided to change the giant impact hypothesis," said Kun Wang, assistant professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, and one of the two scientists to have led the research on this new...
01 November 2016
New twist on Moon formation helps explain its weird orbit
.... "Every other body in the solar system has different chemistry," said Sarah Stewart, professor of earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Davis and senior author on a paper recently submitted to Nature on this new research...
