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In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, we speak with two people – a planetary scientist who studies the geology of the Moon, and a space lawyer who studies space policy and geopolitics – about ...
Scientists have long thought that the South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by a shallow-angle impact, but new research suggests ...
Two gargantuan canyons on the moon were carved by a hailstorm of rocks — and that’s good news for future lunar astronauts.
The Castle will be presenting Third Thursdays With The Castle: “The History of the New Concord Meteorite Fall of 1860 and the Modern Mapping of its Fragments” on Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. The New Concord ...
Our Solar System, like a sneaky little hobbit, seems to have stuffed its pockets full of hidden oceans. Jupiter, Saturn, ...
Ariel’s medial grooves could provide important clues about the moon’s internal structure, particularly regarding the presence ...
A Mars image shows a strange square formation. Some think it's artificial, but experts suggest natural causes.
According to a recent YouGov poll, 35% of Americans think Pluto is not a planet. But they are all wrong—kind of. To get to ...
On Tuesday, Provost Francis Doyle announced that Greg Hirth ScM’87 PhD’91, a professor of earth, environmental and planetary ...