Nine southern Arizona elementary school teachers gathered at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson for a three-day professional development workshop organized in partnership with STEMAZing at the ...

The march of the planets around the Sun may seem interminable, but new research suggests that the likelihood of another star in our galaxy passing by and disrupting our Solar System is slightly higher ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover found siderite, an iron carbonate mineral, within the rocky layers of Mount Sharp in Mars’ Gale Crater. This discovery could provide an answer to the mystery of what happened to ...

Dec. 18, 2024, TUCSON, Ariz. – The Planetary Science Institute has selected University of Arizona graduate student Namya Baijal and Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur doctoral candidate Mishal K T ...

Core collapse supernovae (SNe) with hydrogen-rich envelopes, aka Type II SNe (SNe II), are the most common stellar explosions in the Universe. They are the main producers of heavy elements… ...

A mysterious object discovered in the main asteroid belt in 2021 was determined to be a main-belt comet by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Henry Hsieh, Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie ...

A new geologic map of a portion of Oriental basin where one pixel on the photographic basemap is about the size of a football field (100 m). The stars are locations where future missions could sample ...

Our objective is to improve interpretation of in situ and remote-sensing data of Mercury. We will use updated exosphere and spectrophotometric models that incorporate new data from our proposed ...

Proposed Methodology: We will investigate the ejecta blankets of young lunar craters using a variety of data sets, at a variety of wavelengths, to better understand their emplacement, maturity, and ...

The Lunar Exploration Gas Spectrometer (LEGS) is an instrument for studying the gas composition of lunar regolith. In the LEGS a 2.5 GHz solid state microwave transmitter positioned on a downward ...

Co-I Catherine Weitz of the Planetary Science Institute will make measurements of grain properties to distinguish deposit origin and where varying properties reflect changing geomorphic thresholds… ...

Benecchi is requesting funding to work on the paper led by Buie entitled “The New Horizons Extended Mission Target: Search, Discovery, and Properties”. The paper is drafted, but it is a review paper ...