The Virtual Planetary Laboratory (VPL), one of NASA’s flagship astrobiology research teams, has officially joined the SETI ...

In a science lab on the fourth floor of UTSA's Multidisciplinary Studies Building, UTSA students engage in meticulous choreography around a glowing furnace, melting rocks to produce lava. The task ...

If life is possible there, the planet evolved very differently than Earth, say researchers at the University of Washington-based Virtual Planetary Laboratory, where astronomers, geophysicists, ...

Getting to the moon was the first part. Staying there permanently is NASA's next big goal, and innovative technologies developed by students from Michigan Tech's Planetary Surface Technology ...

A trio of rock hunters donated samples of the meteor that blazed across Nevada and California last month to the UA Lunar and Planetary Lab. The lab, which is currently working on OSIRIS-REx, a NASA ...

Michael Drake knew the OSIRIS-REx mission would be his final achievement as a scientist and as director of the UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. He may still be part of it, despite his death in ...

UT San Antonio students in the HAMsTER Lab melt rocks to produce lava, a task that helps them survey the vast landscapes of the universe. In a science lab on the fourth floor of UTSA’s ...