Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

NWU-HKU Joint Center of Earth and Planetary Sciences has the following research output in the current window (1 October 2024 - 30 September 2025) of the Nature Index. Click on Count to view a list of ...

First light for the innovative new instrument is anticipated in 2028. Spectre — once operational — will play a key role in ...

The University of Freiburg is establishing a new tenure track professorship in Earth and Planetary Geodynamics at the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, made possible by a 1.71 million euro ...

Earth and planetary sciences professor Andrew Fisher will lead hydrogeology simulations to study how water, heat, and chemicals circulate between rocky seafloors and subsurface oceans on worlds like ...

Choose your fighter for the origin of water on Earth! Was it always here or did it come to this planet from somewhere else in ...

The discovery of the Kuiper Belt fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the solar system's architecture and population, revealing a far larger and more complex system than previously imagined.

Shannon Curry remembers the first time she saw the moon up close. She was an undergraduate at Tufts University doing research in Oracle, Arizona, and got the chance to see the moon through a ...

This study will describe how international and national planetary protection policy has been formulated and adopted and identify associated lessons to inform future policy development. The National ...

Mars once had sprawling river systems that rivaled major watersheds on Earth, and scientists have now identified the biggest ...