Solar and Planetary Research Grants Available. Entry #14 13 Sep 2016 1:01 pm 0 comments The Solar and Planetary Research Grants (SPG) Program provides individual investigator and collaborative research grants for observational, theoretical, laboratory, and archival data studies in the science of our solar system and extrasolar planetary systems. Proposals for projects and tools...
Assessing the Habitability of Proxima Centauri b Entry #13 07 Sep 2016 7:03 pm 0 comments The recent discovery of a potentially Earth-like planet orbiting the nearest star to the Sun has caused waves in the exoplanet and astrobiology community. Proxima Centauri b is a terrestrial planet with a minimum mass of 1.3 Earth masses orbiting in the 'habitable zone' of the red dwarf...