... 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....
...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...
.... 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...
...'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...
... 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...
.... "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...