NASA has selected ASU as one of 10 new NASA Astrobiology Institute teams, with the intent of boosting extraterrestrial exploration by refining the criteria that guide the search for life.
Volcanism has played a more extensive role in shaping the surface of Mercury than previously thought, according to imaging data gathered by the MESSENGER spacecraft.
Lawrence Krauss, renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist, is assuming a leadership role at ASU in an emerging research and educational initiative on “origins.”
A new model developed by a team of ASU researchers is piecing together different, and often conflicting, hypotheses to deliver a clearer picture of the motion of the earth’s mantle.
ASU's Mars-orbiting camera, THEMIS, has captured the first evidence of salts on Mars. These deposits may provide evidence for the existence of former Martian life.
Walter Alvarez, world-renowned geologist and author of “T. rex and the Crater of Doom,” will deliver a lecture Feb. 21 on scientific revolutions that shaped history.
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