October 2024
Revolutionising space medicine and global health through virtual and augmented reality
... 42-year career at NASA, Jim was NASA’s Chief Scientist and was the longest serving director of the Planetary Science Division.
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...
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.
27 July 2018
A pool of liquid water found under Mars' south pole
... and lead author of the paper published in the journal Science. “This is just one small study area; it is... the past? “This thrilling discovery is a highlight for planetary science and will contribute to our understanding of the evolution of Mars...
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...