Date Posted: 2008-11-04
Associate Professor Lynda Williams was profiled in the newest edition of the magazine Phoenix Woman. The article discusses Williams' science career path and her current research: mud....
Date Posted: 2008-11-03
They were sent to Mars on a 90-day mission, but almost five years later the rovers Spirit and Opportunity have traveled farther, seen more, and survived longer than anyone imagined possible, earning a place among the most prolific explorers in histor...
Date Posted: 2008-10-27
Meteorites, solid bodies from outer space that have fallen to the Earth's surface, represent the building blocks of the terrestrial planets, including Earth. Although they are a rare find, meteorites do land all over the planet. Dry hot deserts or co...
Date Posted: 2008-10-08
A six-minute rocket firing on Sept. 30 has put NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft on track for a new orbit around the Red Planet. The change, part of a two-year extension for the mission, will give an ASU-operated instrument carried on Odyssey greater se...
Date Posted: 2008-10-07
Philip R. Christensen, Regents' Professor of Geological Sciences in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, has been given the G.K. Gilbert Award for 2008 by the Planetary Sciences Division of the Geological Society of ...
Date Posted: 2008-10-03
Humans have long pondered the possibility that life exists beyond Earth. The quest for habitable worlds has focused on searching for water, but "following the water" turns out to be too general a criterion. The list of planets and satellites that pos...
Date Posted: 2008-10-02
Miles below us, deep within Earth’s crust, life is astir. Organisms there are not the large creatures typically envisioned when thinking of life. Instead, thriving there are microbes, the smallest and oldest form of life on Earth. Although the ...
Date Posted: 2008-09-25
Nature News story details how planetary scientists shortlist top landing sites on Mars. "If you go to any lake bed on Earth, that's where you find fossils," says James Rice, an astrogeologist at Arizona State University in Tempe who is a chief advoca...
Date Posted: 2008-09-24
LIVE TALK GUEST: Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist.
Listen to Lawrence Krauss on aztalk Live Talk Wednesday for the discussion on the Science Debate 2008 -- or politics and presidential politics....
Date Posted: 2008-09-09
Amidst the semi-arid stretches of Phoenix, a visitor might blink twice at the sight of a sailboat cutting across the horizon. Tempe Town Lake, on the northern edge of Arizona State University, is just one of a multitude of lakes, small ponds, canals ...
