Roger C. Wiens, professor of earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences in the College of Science, will present his groundbreaking exploration of the Red Planet with instruments that he developed for ...

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Purdue President Mung Chiang has announced the fall lineup for the Westwood Lecture Series, which provides an opportunity for university faculty to interact with colleagues on scholarly work from a ...

"What makes me want to be a planetary scientist is that you have a chance in your lifetime to fly missions that get real data," said Prof. Richard P. Binzel, planetary science, Massachusetts Institute ...

What would it be like to take a vacation on other planets or a weekend on one of the 63 moons of Jupiter? Find out from noted astronomer, planetary scientist, interplanetary travel guide and Arizona ...

The lecture series features Francis Nimmo, Adriane Steinacker, and Graeme Smith discussing different aspects of the transit of Venus. Photo courtesy of Greg Laughlin. This photo taken at Lick ...

Videos have been the bailiwick of rock stars at least since the days of Bob Dylan. But now they’re spilling over into a new arena - academia. Michael E. Wysession, Ph.D., associate professor of earth ...

Boise State University hosts a free public astronomy event on the first Friday of every month, “same time, same place,” said Brian Jackson, assistant professor in the physics department. That’s always ...

Sarah Hörst wants to find weird things on other planets and moons. Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, will be the subject of Hörst’s Discover Science lecture on December 1. Hörst will visit with students ...

For University of Arizona students, the fall semester is in full swing. But nonstudents will also find that there is much to learn this semester. You asked, and Flandrau Planetarium delivered. “Every ...

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US art historian Taylor McCall kicked off the lecture and reading series “Aesthetic Conceptions of the Body between Religion and Politics” in the annual theme “Body and Religion” of the Cluster of ...