PSI Director and CEO Amanda Hendrix. Credit: PSI/Mikayla Kelley What a year 2025 has been! After being a senior scientist at PSI for 12 years, I started as Deputy Director at PSI in January of 2025 ...

University of Edinburgh's Sarah Stewart and Michigan State University's Emily Elizondo are recipients of the 2026 Pierazzo Award. Credit: PSI The winners of the 2026 Betty Pierazzo International ...

Illustration of the uncertainty of Earth's orbit 56 million years ago due to a potential past passage of the Sun-like star HD7977 2.8 million years ago. Each point's distance from the center ...

Mishal K T was awarded the 2025 Pierazzo International Student Travel Award at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference at The Woodlands, Texas, along with a check for $2,000 from PSI Director and ...

Oct. 28, 2024, TUCSON, Ariz. – The Moon and Mars are pocked with giant impact craters acquired very long ago, while there appears to be a dearth of them on Earth and Venus. Time may have healed many ...

Lava tubes are high priority targets for in situ exploration of Mars, with the potential to provide access to subsurface cavities that could facilitate scientific studies of the Martian subsurface as ...

New research suggests that Ariel, a moon of Uranus, might have once harbored an ocean about 100 miles (170km) deep. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/PSI/Mikayla Kelley/Peter ...

Ancient Mars may have featured surface hot springs, according to research by PSI’s Dorothy Oehler. Using new data from a Digital Terrain Model (derived from HiRISE images acquired with NASA’s Mars ...

Top: Black and white image of the Moon from Moon Mineralogy Mapper data. Bottom: Map of water on the Moon. The different colors represent different shapes to the water absorption and correlate with ...

Two years ago the International Astronomical Union (IAU) elected to define the term planet, restricting it to the eight largest bodies orbiting the Sun, and deleting Pluto from the list. The demotion ...

Scientists using sophisticated computational chemistry techniques have identified a new pathway for how sulfur particles can form in the atmosphere of Venus. These results may help to understand the ...

July 15, 2025, TUCSON, Ariz. – Orbiting in the outskirts of the Solar System is a mysterious object moving in rhythm with Neptune, according to a new paper published in the Planetary Science Journal.