... isotopes—the slight variations the element displays at the subatomic level—can tell planetary scientists more about the formation of crust than they previously thought, according to Dauphas and co- ...
A new study by UCLA planetary scientists and their colleagues in Germany overturns a longstanding scientific tenet and provides new insights into how convection controls much of what we observe in ...
New "Star Trek" movie relied on a veteran planetary scientist to get the science right.
Planetary scientists are looking for new ways to sterilize their spacecraft, so that they won't be excluded from exploring interesting places. Eric Hand reports.
... by the camera during Messenger's previous flybys, McClintock said.
"One of the big questions planetary scientist have is how much iron there is on Mercury's surface," said McClintock. "We hope to ...
Using two ESA spacecraft, planetary scientists are watching the atmospheres of Mars and Venus being stripped away into space. The simultaneous observations by Mars Express and Venus Express give ...
... are found around hydrothermal vents like those in Yellowstone National Park. That's the conclusion of planetary scientists working with data collected by the rover's Miniature Thermal Emission ...
... impact--now has strong support from computer simulations carried out by two groups of researchers. Planetary scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, were involved in both studies, ...
... warms the Earth's surface. The new equation, developed by University of Michigan atmospheric and planetary scientist Nilton Renno, could allow scientists to more accurately calculate the maximum ...
... study as a Graduate Student Research Program scholar at NASA Ames Research Center, working with NASA planetary scientist Jeffrey Moore and Alan Howard of the University of ...
Planetary scientists shortlist top landing sites on Mars.
... support life in other solar systems should look outside, as well as within, the so-called "habitable zone," University of Arizona planetary scientists say.
(PhysOrg.com) -- With an 84-year orbit around the sun, it isn't often that planetary scientists have an opportunity to observe the change of seasons on Uranus, a planet some ...
... because they stay that way longer than astronomers have thought, according to new work by MIT planetary scientist Linda Elkins-Tanton. For a few million years after their initial formation, planets ...
... terrain may be the remnant of a buried impact crater, suggests a University of Arizona planetary scientist who studied the feature in a new, detailed image from the HiRISE camera onboard NASA's Mars ...