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 ...

Researchers have recently focused on intriguing geological formations on Venus, including peculiar structures on its surface ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

An illustration depicting the formation of TTGs in a two-stage mantle plume-sagduction model. Geologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how the ...

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 ...