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Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Stuart M. Marshall
University of Glasgow
2
Eva L. Scheller
Stanford University
3
Isabella Hermann
Technische Universität Berlin
4
Huicun He
Institute of Geology and Geophysics
5
L. V. Posiolova
Malin Space Science Systems (United States)
6
Chuanjiao Zhou
Chinese Academy of Sciences
7
Jonathan O’Callaghan
The University of Adelaide
8
Beichao Wang
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
9
Juan B. García Martínez
University of Alaska Fairbanks
10
Shirley Holt
University of South Australia

Rising Stars Papers

1
How OpenAI’s text-to-video tool Sora could change science – and society
Nature|2024
31 cit.
2
Water abundance in the lunar farside mantle
Nature|2025
27 cit.
3
Multiple sources of water preserved in impact glasses from Chang’e-5 lunar soil
Science Advances|2024
25 cit.
4
Inorganic interpretation of luminescent materials encountered by the Perseverance rover on Mars
Science Advances|2024
20 cit.
5
Apple Vision Pro: what does it mean for scientists?
Nature|2024
14 cit.
6
Food without agriculture: Food from CO2, biomass and hydrocarbons to secure humanity's food supply against global catastrophe
Trends in Food Science & Technology|2024
11 cit.
7
Lunar dichotomy in surface water storage of impact glass beads
Nature Communications|2025
4 cit.
8
Global potential of integrated biorefineries for leaf protein and sugar: Producing sustainable food and preventing starvation in catastrophes
Sustainable Production and Consumption|2026
2 cit.
9
Sam Bankman-Fried sentencing: crypto-funded researchers grapple with FTX collapse
Nature|2024
1 cit.
10
Fiction meets fact: exploring human-machine convergence in today’s cinematographic culture
i-com|2024
1 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Yingzhuo Jia
Chinese Academy of Sciences
2
the ExoMars Project Team
Unknown
3
Stuart G. Webb
University of Notre Dame
4
Hernán Lorenzi
Center for Infectious Disease Research
5
Yongqing Peng
Jiangsu Institute of Meteorological Sciences
6
Shuai Li
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
7
Kanta Dihal
University of Cambridge
8
David H. E. MacMahon
University of California, Berkeley
9
Yongliao Zou
Chinese Academy of Sciences
10
Brian Zambri
FirstString Research (United States)

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Scientific objectives and payload configuration of the Chang'E-7 mission
National Science Review|2023
147 cit.
2
Research of Lunar Water-Ice and Exploration for China’s Future Lunar Water-Ice Exploration
Space Science & Technology|2023
30 cit.
3
Formation of lunar surface water associated with high-energy electrons in Earth’s magnetotail
Nature Astronomy|2023
25 cit.
4
\n4-8 GHz Fourier-domain Searches for Galactic Center Pulsars
Radboud Repository (Radboud University)|2022
14 cit.
5
Orbital Characterization of the Composition and Distribution of Spinels Across the Crisium Region: Insight From Luna 20 Samples
Journal of Geophysical Research Planets|2023
11 cit.
6
Solid−gas carbonate formation during dust events on Mars
National Science Review|2023
7 cit.
7
Abundant presolar silicates of the CM chondrite Asuka 12169: Implications for the thermal and aqueous alteration of the CM parent body
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta|2022
6 cit.
8
Dark mantles over domes and rilles on the Moon: Evidence for pyroclastic materials
Icarus|2023
5 cit.
9
Laboratory experiments on the visible to near- infrared (VNIR) spectroscopy of water ice and lunar highland simulant mixtures: Effects of particle size, particle shape, phase angle, and ice abundance
Icarus|2025
5 cit.
10
A controlled mosaic of Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) reflectance data in the lunar polar regions for understanding the mineralogy and water of the Artemis exploration zone
Icarus|2025
5 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
M. T. Zuber
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2
J. W. Head
John Brown University
3
Donna Haraway
Unknown
4
M. J. Wolff
Space Science Institute
5
B. M. Jakosky
University of Colorado Boulder
6
Dan Werthimer
University of California, Berkeley
7
Nevin N. Weinberg
The University of Texas at Arlington
8
D. A. Paige
University of California, Los Angeles
9
H. Hiesinger
University of Münster
10
Xiaoli Sun
California Institute of Technology

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
Feminist Studies|1988
17.5k cit.
2
Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation)|1988
7k cit.
3
Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
Feminist Review|1992
6.8k cit.
4
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1992
5.5k cit.
5
Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin
Environmental Humanities|2015
2.9k cit.
6
A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
Unknown Journal|2013
2.6k cit.
7
Phantom Energy: Dark Energy with<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>w</mml:mi><mml:mo>&lt;</mml:mo><mml:mo>−</mml:mo><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:math>Causes a Cosmic Doomsday
Physical Review Letters|2003
2.3k cit.
8
Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science.
Journal of American History|1990
2.3k cit.
9
Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter: Experiment summary after the first year of global mapping of Mars
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres|2001
1.7k cit.
10
Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science.
The American Historical Review|1991
1.4k cit.

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