Top: Black and white image of the Moon from Moon Mineralogy Mapper data. Bottom: Map of water on the Moon. The different colors represent different shapes to the water absorption and correlate with ...

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 ...

Illustration of the uncertainty of Earth's orbit 56 million years ago due to a potential past passage of the Sun-like star HD7977 2.8 million years ago. Each point's distance from the center ...

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 ...

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Lava tubes are high priority targets for in situ exploration of Mars, with the potential to provide access to subsurface cavities that could facilitate scientific studies of the Martian subsurface as ...

Mishal K T was awarded the 2025 Pierazzo International Student Travel Award at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference at The Woodlands, Texas, along with a check for $2,000 from PSI Director and ...

The winds of Mars sculpt and shape sand into wave-like dunes. Much of what is known about how sand dunes move around the surface is based on images taken by the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars ...

The north pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus, pictured above, was found to have significant heat flow, overturning previous assumptions that heat loss was confined to its geologically active south pole.

June 26, 2025, TUCSON, Ariz. – After nearly 20 years of operations, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO for short, is on a roll, performing a new maneuver to squeeze even more science out of ...

The results, found in the Icarus paper “Isotopic Ratios of Saturn’s Rings and Satellites: Implications for the Origin of Water and Phoebe” by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Roger N.

Senior Scientist Daniel Berman led a team of other PSI scientists in producing a new U.S. Geological Survey Investigations map of Mars. The map shows details of the source region of Shalbatana Vallis, ...