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A billion years ago, a massive rock slammed into Mars and gouged a crater into the surface the size of Houston. Back then, rivers flowed… - Meet the Mars Student Researcher Who Wants to Rewrite Fluid Dynamics
The Center for Planetary Systems Habitability provides research fellowships and travel grants that help students like Eric Hiatt make groundbreaking research about life on other… - UT Researcher’s Virus Discovery Offers Clues About Origins of Complex Life
Eukaryotic cells. Credit: iStock. Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin report in Nature Microbiology the first discovery of viruses infecting a group of microbes that may… - River Belt Geology Helps Scientists Understand Ancient Mars Rivers
Long after a river has dried up, its channel belt lives on. Made up of swaths of sediment surrounding the river, channel belts, once hardened… - UT Planetary Scientist Honored by NASA
The Jackson School of Geosciences’ Timothy Goudge is among the five scientists selected by NASA’s Planetary Science Division to receive an Early Career Award. The…