The moon may look unchanged from afar, but its surface is constantly reshaped by microscopic impacts and a steady stream of ...
Four-and-a-half billion years ago, a massive world—possibly as big as the moon or even Mars—orbited our sun before crashing ...
A newly developed computer model reveals that rocky planets must have a radius at least 80 per cent of Earth to maintain a ...
The Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science (CAPS) provides an independent, authoritative forum for identifying and discussing issues in astrobiology and planetary science with the research ...
This report is part of the overarching activities of the CAPS, which is constituted to assist the federal government in integrating and planning programs in the fields of astrobiology and planetary ...
Our team’s research is driven by a single scientific question: “How can we best assess whether an exoplanet supports life?” To answer this, the massively interdisciplinary VPL Team develops and ...
NWU-HKU Joint Center of Earth and Planetary Sciences has the following research output in the current window (1 February 2025 - 31 January 2026) of the Nature Index. Click on Count to view a list of ...
Dr. Victoria Meadows leads the massively interdisciplinary NASA Virtual Planetary Laboratory, which she started in 2001 with the goal of developing a scientific foundation for the search for ...