22 December 2015
First new 'ground truth' in 40 years as Chinese rover Yuto presents analysis of moon rocks
... ilmenite crystallises late, this seems strange, adds Alian Wang, research professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University. Finding a rock that is rich in both doesn’t add up. Olivine is a magnesium iron silicate...
17 March 2021
Like Venus, ancient water on Mars is trapped in its crust, new study says
... hydrated minerals whose formation certainly decreased water availability over time," says co-author Bethany Ehlmann, professor of planetary science and associate director for the Keck Institute for Space Studies. This vast retention of ancient water...
21 June 2021
The NASA Kepler Mission
... the two missions have made “fundamental, paradigm-changing advances in essentially every area of astrophysics and planetary science”. The Kepler spacecraft was, in effect, a planet hunter. From its launch in 2009, it continuously monitored the...
04 March 2016
NASA Expected to Make a Decision on InSight Mars Lander in the Near Future
... or so.” If NASA decided to go ahead with InSight, it would need to find that money, most likely within the agency’s planetary sciences program. “It means less money to do something else,” Banerdt said. “Sorry about that.” Banerdt said one option...
18 November 2016
Pluto's heart is an ocean of slushy ice
... mass of water. "At that point, there is no extra mass at Sputnik Planitia," explained Francis Nimmo, professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz and first author of a paper published in Nature. "What happens then is the ice shell gets...
21 September 2020
Jupiter could have 600 moons, a new study says
... by a team of scientists led by Scott Sheppard from the Carnegie Institution for Science. This glut of 79 moons could one day be bumped up to 124 after...be published in The Planetary Science Journal and are available on the pre-print arXiv database....
