At the December 2024 meeting of the American Geophysical Union, or AGU, in Washington, D.C., PSI’s Sanlyn Buxner became president-elect of the AGU’s Education Section. At PSI, Buxner is a Senior ...

Jan. 8, 2025, TUCSON, Ariz. – The early Earth was an extreme place. Asteroids pummeled the surface. Volcanoes spewed lava and carbon dioxide. The thick, toxic atmosphere lacked oxygen. Yet, in this ...

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NASA announced that it has selected a proposal led by Planetary Science Institute Research Scientist Kirby Runyon to train hundreds of citizen scientists to map the Moon in high resolution. PSI Senior ...

The Mineralogical Society of America will award the 2025 Roebling Medal to Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Darby Dyar. Dyar is also a Kennedy-Schelkunoff Professor of Astronomy at Mount ...

“Do you know where that address is?” asked the taxi driver when PSI’s Sanlyn Buxner gave him the address of the youth center she was headed to. Along with eight other researchers and science ...

The Planetary Science Institute (PSI) proudly announces the Betty Pierazzo International Student Travel Award, in honor of our late Senior Scientist. This award is designed to inspire graduate ...

Barringer Crater, also called Meteor Crater, is located in the United States of America (35º 2′ N, 111º 1′ W) in northern Arizona, about 35 miles (55 km) east of the city of Flagstaff. The crater is ...

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Explore the exceptional achievements of past recipients of the Betty Pierazzo Awards. These talented graduate students have demonstrated outstanding contributions to planetary science and have built ...

Impact craters form when huge asteroids or comets, sometimes kilometers in size, hit the surface of a planetary body. Images of various planets and moons in the solar system show thousands and ...