The Virtual Planetary Laboratory (VPL), one of NASA’s flagship astrobiology research teams, has officially joined the SETI ...
Our team’s research is driven by a single scientific question: “How can we best assess whether an exoplanet supports life?” To answer this, the massively interdisciplinary VPL Team develops and ...
Earth as we know it offers majestic trees, meandering streams, and rolling hills. Yet below the Earth's surface, forces and elements like intense pressure and scalding magma simmer and stew—and make ...
The Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032 will assess key scientific questions in planetary science and astrobiology, identify priority medium- and large-class missions and other ...
The Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science (CAPS) provides an independent, authoritative forum for identifying and discussing issues in astrobiology and planetary science with the research ...
Sometime before the end of the decade, a Chinese spacecraft could race toward a small asteroid at roughly nine kilometres per ...
In a science lab on the fourth floor of UTSA's Multidisciplinary Studies Building, UTSA students engage in meticulous choreography around a glowing furnace, melting rocks to produce lava. The task ...
1 computer optical disc in pocket. 'In recent years, planetary science has seen a tremendous growth in new knowledge. Deposits of water ice exist at the Moon's poles. Discoveries on the surface of ...
The severity of anxiety and depressive symptoms in the planetary science community is greater than in the general U.S. population, according to a study led by a University of Hawai'i at Mānoa ...
Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.), one of the co-chairs of the Planetary Science Caucus, speaks at a March 5 event about the relaunched caucus. Credit: SpaceNews/Jeff Foust WASHINGTON — As NASA’s planetary ...
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This poll is now closed. Results to come soon, stay tuned! In our September 2025 issue, astronomer and Pluto mission leader S. Alan Stern explores how the field of planetary science has transformed ...