From Sept. 7-12, PSI scientists gathered in Helsinki, Finland with planetary science colleagues for a joint science meeting between the Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) and the U.S.-based Division ...
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 ...
Mars is more than a dusty, red planet. Some parts of its surface can resemble the folds and ridges of the human brain or ocean corals. Scientists have dubbed such Martian surface features ‘brain coral ...
July 24, 2025, TUCSON, Ariz. – On the slopes of Martian mountains and craters clings what appears to be flowing honey, coated in dust and frozen in time. In reality, these features are incredibly slow ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Religion and science can sometimes feel at odds, to the chagrin of Grace Wolf-Chase, a Planetary Science Institute senior scientist and senior education and communication specialist who is also a ...
Planetary Science Institute scientists have converged in the lab, trying to decipher the mineral composition of dust. Not just any dust, but rather a simulated sample of Mercury’s surface, created as ...
April 30, 2025, TUCSON, Ariz.— The Planetary Science Institute, along with a coalition of leading space industry organizations, scientific societies and public advocacy groups are submitting a joint ...
Secondary craters – you know, the kind that are created by the falling debris that follows an initial impact – are what scientists call… annoying. This is because they can muddy up crater counts, ...
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