Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.

Canada will soon roll a rover onto the moon, and you can help name the pioneering machine.

The Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the moon this decade amid a renewed international push for lunar exploration, is facing more delays.

Forty-one light plain deposits in the lunar southern polar region are investigated for origin and absolute model age determination Schrödinger basin materials date to ∼3.8 Ga, Orientale materials...

Curiosity rover images reveal a previously unknown, visually spectacular cloud season in the Martian tropics during early southern autumn Iridescence in the noctilucent clouds requires a narrow p...

As we get together this holiday season and prepare our turkey feasts, we’ve been pondering life on other planets and moons. What would it be like to cook a turkey on Venus or Jupiter’s moon, Io? We as...

The planet’s harsh conditions make studying seismicity challenging, but it is likely possible.

"All of us are excited to design and develop this complex mission and make it happen by 2028."

Recently, LPI welcomed Dr. Neeraja Chinchalkar as the new Graham Ryder Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Chinchalkar received her PhD in Geology (with a collaborative specialization in Planetary Science and Ex...

Panspermia is the hypothesis that life can survive the transfer between planetary bodies as a secondary path for life to get started on planets throughout a solar system. The discovery of extraterrest...

The presence of microorganisms within meteorites has been used as evidence for extraterrestrial life, however, the potential for terrestrial contamination makes their interpretation highly controvers...

Shaking and Tumbling: Short- and Long-timescale Mechanisms for Resurfacing of Near-Earth Asteroid Surfaces from Planetary Tides and Predictions for the 2029 Earth Encounter by (99942) Apophis, R.-L. Ballouz, H. Agrusa, O.S. Barnouin, K.J. Walsh, Y. Zhang, R.P. Binzel, V.J. Bray, D. N. DellaGiustina, E.R. Jawin, J.V. DeMartini, A. Marusiak, P. Michel, N. Murdoch, D.C. Richardson, E.G. Rivera-Valentín, A.S. Rivkin, Y. Tang

A Conversation Between Scientists: Dawn Wright, PhD, Chief Scientist of Esri and Katharine Hayhoe, Chief Scientist of The Nature Conservancy The alarm bells are ringing. Our changing climate has pushe...

5 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Nov 22-Dec 06, 2024. A thrilling journey through the solar system that merges imagination with hard science...