Ancient river valleys carved less than 3 billion years ago during Mars’ Early Amazonian Epoch dissect the flanks of the Martian volcano Alba Mons. To understand Mars’ more recent geologic and ...

Six Planetary Science Institute members traveled to Capitol Hill on the evening of Monday, May 19 to attend the Congressional Planetary Science Caucus kick-off reception. They set up a PSI table to ...

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May 27, 2025, TUCSON, Ariz. – In the cold, dark outskirts of planetary systems far beyond the reach of the known planets, mysterious gas giants and planetary masses orbit their stars – sometimes ...

Feb. 14, 2024, Tucson, Ariz. – Stars that pass by our Solar System have altered the long-term orbital evolution of planets, including Earth, and by extension modified our climate. “Perturbations – a ...

Oct. 28, 2024, TUCSON, Ariz. – The Moon and Mars are pocked with giant impact craters acquired very long ago, while there appears to be a dearth of them on Earth and Venus. Time may have healed many ...

Nov. 1, 2024, TUCSON, Ariz. – On a cold, ancient Mars, rivers flowed and a lake the size of the Mediterranean Sea swelled under the protection of thick ice ceilings, according to new research ...

Detection and mapping of minerals, vegetation species, chemicals, liquids, and solids is being done through the field of imaging spectroscopy. Imaging spectrometers are deployed on aircraft, ...

Sept. 16, 2024, Tucson, Ariz. – A new analysis of maps of the near and far sides of the Moon shows that there are multiple sources of water and hydroxyl in the sunlit rocks and soils, including ...

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 ...

Nov. 18, 2024, TUCSON, Ariz. – Billions of years ago, a giant asteroid struck the Moon with so much energy that it melted rock until it was super-heated and white-hot, or what scientists call impact ...