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Color-coded chromium abundance map overlain on MESSENGER image of Mercury. Image courtesy Larry Nittler/ASU

NASA MESSENGER Mission Data Used To Measure Chromium On Mercury

The origin of Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, is mysterious in many ways. It has a metallic core, like Earth, but its core makes up a much larger […]

by SpaceRef July 11, 2023July 15, 2024

Radiation Belts

Astronomers Discover The First Known Extrasolar Radiation Belt

by SpaceRef May 15, 2023July 15, 2024

Enigmatic Rocks On Mars Show Evidence Of A Violent Origin

by SpaceRef April 27, 2022July 15, 2024

ASU team celebrates 20th anniversary of NASA’s Mars Odyssey Orbiter arrival at the Red Planet

by SpaceRef November 22, 2021

The 10 most important new insights on the climate

by SpaceRef November 4, 2021

ASU astrobiologist and physicist Sara Walker receives early career award from the International Society of the Study of the Origin of Life

by SpaceRef November 3, 2021

ASU-Led NASA Psyche mission is a year out from launch

by SpaceRef August 24, 2021

Team awarded $2M NSF grant to teach virtual explorers about permafrost and Arctic climate change

by SpaceRef July 19, 2021

Martian south polar cap composition focus of new study

by SpaceRef June 29, 2021

ASU professor Meenakshi Wadhwa named NASA’s Mars Sample Return program scientist

by SpaceRef April 16, 2021