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...
14 April 2017
Cassini finds evidence for hydrothermal vent activity on Enceladus
... sitting right on the thermal anomaly," said William Sparks of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. If the plumes and the warm spot are linked, it...be ready for them," said Jim Green, Director of Planetary Science, at NASA Headquarters.
26 November 2018
Success for InSight as it performs a flawless landing on Mars
... human explorers deeper into the solar system,” said Lori Glaze, acting director of the Planetary Science Division in NASA's Science Mission Directorate. "It's taken more than a decade to bring InSight from a concept to a spacecraft approaching Mars...
13 July 2020
UAE's mission to Mars scheduled for launch tomorrow
... (UAE) as the country, which is a relative newcomer to the space industry, is due to launch its first planetary-science mission to Mars. Scheduled to launch from a remote Japanese island, Tanegashima, during a narrow launch window at 20:51:27 UTC...
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...
