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....
18 February 2021
Success for NASA as Perseverance lands on Mars
...organic matter and minerals, and PIXL (short for Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry), which maps the ...quote Carl Sagan,” said Gentry Lee, chief engineer for the Planetary Science Directorate at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, “If we see a...
12 November 2021
Near-Earth asteroid might be a piece of the Moon
.... Its orbit is also not typical of near-Earth asteroids, according to study co-author Renu Malhotra, a Univerity of Arizona planetary sciences professor who led the orbit analysis portion of the study. "It is very unlikely that a garden-variety near...
April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
... Yobi, a services platform later acquired by Orkla ASA. Viktoria Urban has a background in journalism, astronomy & planetary science, and psychology. She aspires to be a neuroscientist examining the brains of astronauts who go on deep space missions...
27 May 2016
Scientists reveal Mars is emerging from an ice age
...'s lead author. Smith led the work while at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, but is now at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona. The retreat and regrowth of polar ice on Mars is due to the increased tilt of the...
