This site illustrates the USGS's research in astrogeology, which is "the science devoted to studying the origin, composition, structure, and history of the planets and their moons." Geologists will find information about the technologies, programs, and projects including the Planetary Geologic Mapping Program and the Lunar Pyroclastic Volcanism project. The site also provides scientists with the...

Provided by the US Geological Survey Astrology Research Program, the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature Web site contains nearly everything you ever wanted to know about naming the physical features of planets. The site provides a history of the activity, details how names are approved, and of course contains an exhaustive list. For example, did you know that an Apollo 16 astronaut named a...

The Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology's (HIGP) mission is "to solve fundamental problems in Earth and Planetary Science by the application and development of state-of-the-art exploration, measurement, and analysis technologies." This expansive Web site provides illustrations for a variety of research in subjects including High Pressure Mineral Physics, Volcanology, and...

In March 2019, the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications created this collection of scientific articles "highlight[ing] research on volcanism and the presence of (water-) ice across planets and rocky bodies of our Solar System," curated from its last several years of publications. Here, readers will find 14 articles on the search for evidence of water and volcanic activity on various...