To date, more than 4,000 exoplanets have been confirmed, with thousands more possible exoplanet detections. The physical properties and chemical compositions of these planets are important for understanding how planets […]
Full Details: https://goo.gl/UTxqvx Salary Grade 7 – 33,518 to 38,833 pounds per annum, available for 3 years Closing date: 23 November 2017 The Physics and Astronomy Department at the University […]
The long-standing mystery of why Saturn seethes with enormous storms every 30 years may have been solved by scientists working with data from NASA’s Cassini mission. The tempests, which can […]
ESA’s Venus Express has ended its eight-year mission after far exceeding its planned life. The spacecraft exhausted its propellant during a series of thruster burns to raise its orbit following […]
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample collected by […]
The ruddy color of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is likely a product of simple chemicals being broken apart by sunlight in the planet’s upper atmosphere, according to a new analysis […]
NASA scientists have identified an unexpected high-altitude methane ice cloud on Saturn’s moon Titan that is similar to exotic clouds found far above Earth’s poles. This lofty cloud, imaged by […]
NASA trained several pairs of eyes on Saturn as the planet put on a dancing light show at its poles. While NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, orbiting around Earth, was able […]
We are pleased to invite you to the Third Exoclimes Conference on the diversity of planetary atmospheres, from Earth to exoplanets. This international meeting will take place in Davos, Switzerland, […]
As a result of the AGU Chapman Conference on “Crossing the Boundaries in Planetary Atmospheres: From Earth to Exoplanets,” we have launched a new website and listserv. The website includes […]
The Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration (CPSX), University of Western Ontario & NSERC CREATE Technologies and Techniques in Earth and Space Exploration announces the next annual Planetary Science Short […]