Your impact: September equinox 2024

Partnering and fundraising for planetary defense The Planetary Society’s members came together to raise over $65,000…

Earthlings as aliens | The Planetary Society

Another way aliens could discover evidence of human activity is through the artifacts we’ve sent into…

Connecting ancient life to other worlds

In the final episode of “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” Captain Picard and the godlike entity…

Inside, underneath, backward, upside-down | The Planetary Society

A gigantic asteroid impact likely shifted Ganymede’s axis. Jupiter’s moon, the largest in the Solar System,…

The Tianlin Space Telescope | The Planetary Society

China joins the exoplanet hunt  China’s contributions to the detection and characterization of exoplanets have so…

Explore the Cosmos with The Planetary Society…

About the Author Dr. Bruce Betts, Chief Scientist at The Planetary Society, is a celebrated space…

Why the “habitable zone” doesn’t always mean…

And there are more problems with M star systems. Here on Earth, we have a 24-hour…

Super-size it | The Planetary Society

JWST has found rogue planets that may have formed like stars. The space telescope observed the young…

Wow! Boom! Ultra cool! | The Planetary Society

Is nuking an asteroid a good idea? The idea of using a nuclear bomb to deal with…

Ramses: A new mission racing to land on…

Now, much of the Hera team is also working on Ramses. As Carnelli puts it, the…