Thick clay deposits on Mars hint at long-lived lakes that may have sheltered early life - and preserved clues beneath layers ...

Mars may soon welcome explorers seeking ice deposits crucial for human survival. Recent findings suggest significant ice ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

The team used data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to study high-resolution images of the terrain. Specific surface ...

Planetary Geology About these AI generated summaries Ceres and Vesta, two of the largest bodies in the asteroid belt, offer contrasting yet complementary geological records that illuminate early ...

One of those scientists was John Grant, a planetary geologist at the National Air and Space Museum. His goal? To find evidence of conditions that could have supported life on Mars. “It seems that all ...

As a planetary geologist who works with NASA missions to study Mars, I follow exploration science and policy closely. In 2010, the U.S. National Space Policy set goals for human missions to Mars ...

While the scientific fields of planetary geology and archaeology don’t initially seem like a natural pairing, their unique methodological and technological overlap provides scientists with a better ...

For decades, Venus, often dubbed “Earth’s twin,” has been depicted as a barren, inhospitable world, its surface locked in an ...

Planetary Geology of Ceres and Vesta Publication Trend. The graph below shows the total number of publications each year in Planetary Geology of Ceres and Vesta.

“They landed in a staccato fashion, bang-bang-bang-bang-bang,” says planetary geologist David Kring of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, who reports the finding February 4 in ...