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There are very few places in the world where dynamic activity taking place beneath Earth’s surface goes undetected. Volcanoes, earthquakes, even the sudden uplifting or sinking of the ground are all visible results of restlessness far below, bu...

Professor Jack Farmer chaired a National Research Council Space Studies Board panel on the planetary protection implications of Mars sample return. NASA maintains a planetary protection policy to avoid the biological contamination of other worlds by ...

For nearly twenty years the Hubble Space Telescope has brought the beauty and brilliance of the heavens to us on Earth along with unprecedented discoveries. After Hubble receives its final instrument upgrade that will keep it operating until 2013 and...

Up until last year globes of Mercury were blank on one side. The Mariner 10 spacecraft explored the small planet in three flybys (1974-1975), but since no more than half was ever seen it remained the least understood of the four terrestrial planets &...

School of Earth and Space Exploration is featured prominently in the cover story of AZ Business Magazine’s April issue with four SESE faculty members quoted and a mention of LROC: Strong ties to NASA’s Mars program fuel new research ...

Matthew Fouch, an associate professor in the Arizona State University School of Earth and Space Exploration will speak at the EarthScope Symposium and Reception on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on April 29. Fouch’s research is part of the E...

An unmapped reservoir of briny liquid chemically similar to sea water, but hidden under an inland Antarctic glacier, appears to support microbial life in a cold, dark, oxygen-poor environment – a most unexpected setting to be teeming with life....

Scientists at Arizona State University's Mars Space Flight Facility are using the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter to monitor a new dust storm that has erupted on the Red Planet. The dust storm began in mi...

Internationally known theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss is no stranger to sharing science with the public. As a professor at Arizona State University in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics Department in the College of Liberal Ar...

Matthew Fouch is highlighted in Rachel Courtland's article "Listening to the Earth's deepest secrets" published in New Scientist. Fouch is part of a team of geologists working on the USArray project that is inspecting Earth's internal worki...