In 2025, space exploration enters a new era with missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, led by NASA, ISRO, ESA, JAXA, and ...

Bruno, a faculty member at SOEST’s Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, was instructed to immediately shut down the program. The termination left about two-thirds of the program’s $200,000 ...

JUNE 17, 2025 — The recent discovery of a key mineral has reshaped our scientific understanding of what Mars looked like in the past. Researchers at UTSA are exploring whether Mars could have once ...

In April, Barbara Bruno, project lead and faculty member at the Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology in the UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), was ...

Our solar system is approximately 4.6 billion years old, but countless planetary neighborhoods are still just getting their start. Identifying and studying these newcomers isn’t always easy, but ...

However, in the distant past Mars was a very different place with a thicker atmosphere and so much liquid water that much of the surface was covered by a shallow ocean with rivers running into it ...

However, closer to today, 3.5 and 5 billion years ago, they are slightly shallower than predicted by Einstein," reveals Isaac Tutusaus, assistant astronomer at the Institute of Research in ...

There was a time when Earth was an easy target. Meteorites repeatedly struck it, violently altering its surface: 3.26 billion years ago, a gigantic space rock larger than four Mount Everests — and up ...

Fragments of a meteorite that blazed across the skies near Berlin in January are about 4.5 billion years old, scientists wrote in an article published in the Meteoritics & Planetary Science ...

Owing to the extremely low abundance of silver in the Earth’s crust and mantle, it remains a major challenge to eliminate matrix impurities to obtain accurate silver isotopic compositions in silicate ...

06/03/2024 China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe highlights the giant strides China is making in space exploration. The ESA has supplied instruments for the mission, but there is concern this cooperation ...