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Bill McKinnon shares his story of a career spent studying the geology and geophysics of icy worlds beyond our own. McKinnon, ...

The term “ecosystem engineering” has been used for decades as a way to describe organisms that drastically alter their ...

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

Eugene Shoemaker, the founder of astrogeology, dedicated his life to understanding planetary formation through impacts. His ...

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

In the beginning, when planets were newborn, they glowed like furnaces, vast oceans of molten rock wrapped in heavy blankets ...

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

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — If scientists can prove evidence of life on Mars — now or at any point in the past — “that ...

NASA has long been a driving force in the pursuit of knowledge about space, technology, and the Earth itself. Founded with the mission to explore outer space, the agency has continually pushed the ...

Former NASA officials warn that the U.S. looks poised to lose its self-declared race to beat China to the moon ...