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.
10 November 2017
CubeSat mission to measure water on the Moon
...band spectrometer to look at multiple wavelengths instead of just the one. “Understanding volatiles in the solar system is a major planetary-science objective for NASA,” said scientist Noah Petro. “We believe that the best-suited instrument to answer...
17 June 2020
NASA wants to visit Neptune’s weird moon Triton
... as a potential target to study up close as part of its Discovery Program mission. Running alongside NASA's larger “flagship” planetary science explorations, the agency’s Discovery Programme makes use of smaller missions that use fewer resources and...
