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...
15 June 2016
Scientists discover a chiral molecule outside of our solar system for the first time
... is one of the most interesting properties of life as we know it," says Geoffrey Blake, professor of cosmochemistry and planetary sciences and professor of chemistry. "How did it come to be that all living things use one enantiomer of a particular...
09 August 2016
Yutu, the Chinese Moon Rover, Dies on the Moon
... of the magma on the moon lasted longer than expected.” According to Bradely Jolliff, a professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, who analyzed the Yutu dataset, “The diversity tells us that the moon’s upper...
