February 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
... the need to stay at least at one of them for extended exploration as some of the chemistry measurements important to planetary science require a long integration time. Hence, other missions under formulation include a rendezvous and even a lander...
12 August 2020
Arecibo Observatory damaged by broken cable
... most powerful telescopes on the planet, is used by scientists around the world to conduct research in the areas of atmospheric sciences, planetary sciences, radio astronomy and radar astronomy. Arecibo is also home to a team that runs the...
02 November 2020
Rare meteorite reveals evidence of water on Mars 4.4 billion years ago
... dark meteorite dubbed NWA 7034. The two have been vetted by the Meteoritical Society, an international planetary science organisation, and found to be a new type of Martian meteorite composed of a mixture of different rock fragments - the earliest...
19 September 2016
New research challenges ideas on how the Earth was made
...,” said Bouvier, Curator of the Western Meteorite Collection and a principal investigator at Western’s Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration. “And these new isotopic measurements of meteorites provide exciting answers to these questions about...
21 November 2018
Jezero Crater chosen as landing site for Mars 2020 mission
... than 60 candidate locations on the Red Planet was scrutinized and debated by the mission team and the planetary science community. The rover mission is scheduled to launch in July 2020 as NASA’s next step in exploration of the Red Planet...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... ‘First Orbit’, and wrote the best-selling Haynes owner’s workshop manual on Apollo 11. Riley has a PhD in planetary science from Imperial College and is a Visiting Professor of Science & Media at the University of Lincoln’s School of Film & Media.
