Tag: planetary science
Uncertainty at NASA − Trump withdraws his nominee for administrator while...
Wendy Whitman Cobb, Air University
Over the past several days, NASA’s ambitious space exploration plans have experienced major setbacks....
A decade after the release of ‘The Martian’ and a decade...
Ari Koeppel, Dartmouth College
Andy Weir’s bestselling story “The Martian” predicts that by 2035 NASA will have landed humans...
Scientists found a potential sign of life on a distant planet...
Daniel Apai, University of Arizona
A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of...
Japan is now the 5th country to land on the Moon...
Mariel Borowitz, Georgia Institute of Technology
Japan landed its Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon, or SLIM, craft on...
A rocket is going to crash into the Moon – the...
Paul Hayne, University of Colorado Boulder
On March 4, 2022, a lonely, spent rocket booster will smack into the...
The surface of Venus is cracked and moves like ice floating...
Paul K. Byrne, North Carolina State University
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
EXPLORING NATURE
If it looks like a dire wolf, is it a dire...
Elay Shech, Auburn University
Biotech company Colossal Biosciences made headlines in April 2025 after claiming it had “successfully restored...
