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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PSI is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation, and an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans.

PSI is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation, and an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans.

PSI is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation, and an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans.

In Star Trek, the intrepid explorers use a handheld device called a tricorder to sense, record and compute environmental data. But scientists in the real world have one-upped our fictional friends ...

PSI is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation, and an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans.

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 ...

From Nov.1-3, Planetary Science Institute Research Scientist Jamie Molaro hosted 30 people for the “Making Space: A Workshop on Space, SciArt, & Society” in Pasadena, CA. The theme was Chronology, ...

PSI is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation, and an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans.