22 June 2016
Does a subsurface ocean exist on Pluto?
... likely has a subsurface ocean today," said Noah Hammond, a graduate student in Brown's Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, and the study's lead author. These features, that mark Pluto’s mottled surface are deep sinuous...
11 March 2019
LAMP shows migrating water molecules on the Moon
... of water that can be used by humans in future missions to the Moon," said Amanda Hendrix, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute and lead author of the paper. It was thought that the source of most of the Moon's surface...
24 April 2019
InSight detects first marsquake
... fit the profile of moonquakes detected on the lunar surface during the Apollo missions," said Lori Glaze, Planetary Science Division director at NASA Headquarters. Provided for InSight by the French space agency, Centre National d'Études Spatiales...
21 August 2019
InVADER robot to test technology for ocean world exploration
...," said Pablo Sobron, a SETI Institute physicist, who along with Laurie Barge at NASA JPL, received a NASA Planetary Science and Technology from Analog Research (PSTAR) grant to study underwater hydrothermal systems. "This way, our project...
03 July 2020
More metal on the Moon than previously thought, new study suggests
... to infer what was happening over 4.5 billion years ago!" These new results, recently published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, are inline with evidence from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission which...
14 September 2020
Possible signs of microbial life found in Venus' atmosphere
... such molecule is phosphine (PH3) and Clara Sousa-Silva, a research scientist in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, has been studying the formation of this smelly, poisonous molecule and its role as a biosignature for the...
