Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is just one of many found across the globe. Efforts to ...

In 2022, the Planetary Science Institute hosted a virtual workshop titled “Mercury’s Surface Response to the Interplanetary Environment: Identifying Needed Studies in Laboratory Astrophysics.” From ...

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NASA announced that eight participating scientists will join its Lucy mission as part of NASA’s Lucy in the L4 Trojans Participating Scientist Program. Among them is Planetary Science Institute Senior ...

The plateaus that flank the largest canyon in the Solar System are shrouded in hypnotically complex landforms called light-toned layered deposits. Fifteen years ago, PSI Senior Scientist Catherine ...

The Planetary Science Institute’s Associate Research Scientist Nicholas Castle is interested in questions about outer space that could lead to improvements for life on Earth. Recently, he wondered ...

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