"What makes me want to be a planetary scientist is that you have a chance in your lifetime to fly missions that get real data," said Prof. Richard P. Binzel, planetary science, Massachusetts Institute ...
Michelle Thompson, associate professor of earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences in the College of Science, will present “A Time Machine to the Early Solar System: Analyzing Samples from Asteroid ...
A 1.5-kilometre asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter now carries the name of Astrid Eeuwes, a Dutch amateur astronomer from Nijmegen who spends much of her time studying micrometeorites, ...