Uranus’s tiny moon Ariel may have had a subsurface ocean that made up around 55% of its total volume. By mapping craters, ...

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 ...

In contrast, the recent Brown study utilizes “micro-analytical techniques,” focusing on individual sulfide grains, Dottin ...

Ceres and Vesta, two of the largest bodies in the asteroid belt, offer contrasting yet complementary geological records that illuminate early Solar System processes. Ceres exhibits a diverse landscape ...

Wiemann combines tools from chemistry, biology, and geology to explore ecological and evolutionary questions about life on ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

New research presented at the Europlanet Science Congress 2025 in Helsinki suggests that Venus may be concealing some of the largest lava-carved tunnels ever discovered in the solar system. The ...

Recent explorations have fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the geological evolution of both Ceres and Vesta. Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt, exhibits a diverse ...

A planetary scientist shared new insights into the meteorite that crashed into a Georgia home in June. Speaking with Channel 2’s Linda Stouffer, R. Scott Harris, a planetary geologist, gave new ...