The painting on the left is an artist’s conception of a plume eruption on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The image on the right is a photo of two researchers in the Utah desert collecting effluent from the ...
Planetary Science Institute’s Samuel Courville recently earned the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Study of the Earth’s Deep Interior (SEDI) Section Graduate Research Award. Courville completed his ...
A composite view of Europa’s spider-like Manannán Crater (right), taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in May 1998. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Dec. 1, 2025, TUCSON, Ariz. – From Europa to ...
An artist's concept of NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been orbiting the Red Planet since 2006. The antenna is part of SHARAD, a radar that peers below the Martian surface. Credit: ...
A collage of moons from the outer Solar System suspected of having a subsurface ocean. New research addresses the mystery as to why their surfaces can be so varied. Credit: NASA On moons in the outer ...
Sarah Penniston-Dorland, President of the Mineralogical Society of America, left, presents the 2025 Roebling Medal to Darby Dyar. Credit: Laura Breitenfeld Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist ...
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NASA recently announced that the Martian rover Perseverance discovered a potential biosignature, a substance or structure that might have a biological origin. Dotting the side of a rock formation ...
New research suggests that Ariel, a moon of Uranus, might have once harbored an ocean about 100 miles (170km) deep. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/PSI/Mikayla Kelley/Peter ...
From Sept. 7-12, PSI scientists gathered in Helsinki, Finland with planetary science colleagues for a joint science meeting between the Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) and the U.S.-based Division ...
The MESSENGER mission to Mercury discovered the unexpected presence of volatile elements – such as sulfur, sodium, chloride and even water hidden in permanently shadowed regions in craters near the ...
Mars is more than a dusty, red planet. Some parts of its surface can resemble the folds and ridges of the human brain or ocean corals. Scientists have dubbed such Martian surface features ‘brain coral ...
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