Europe’s newest rocket successfully launched for the first time. On July 9, the European Space Agency’s new Ariane…
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The House’s 2025 NASA Budget Creates Problems…
The Planetary Society, along with a coalition of scientific organizations and over 40 members of Congress,…
Getting a good look at what’s out there
From taking hundreds of thousands of photos of Mars to scanning the skies for asteroids, humanity…
Charting the course for discovery
On June 28, 2024, The Planetary Society hosted a policy briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington,…
China targets its first planetary defense…
The new JDSE article also helpfully lays out hitherto undisclosed science goals and payloads, revealing what…
Making history, making waves, and making LEGO
The first-ever samples from the lunar farside are here on Earth, Titan’s seas are wavy, and…
2024 Shoemaker NEO Grant winner updates
From Gonzalo Fornas of Spain: “Thanks to the new camera, we’ve reported more measurements of NEOs…
Updates from our Shoemaker NEO Grant winners
From Gonzalo Fornas of Spain: “Thanks to the new camera, we’ve reported more measurements of NEOs…
What would it be like to stand on the surface…
Titan is the only moon in the Solar System with a thick atmosphere, which completely obscures…
What are binary asteroids? | The Planetary Society
The Planetary Society’s Shoemaker NEO Grants fund efforts to find, track, and characterize near-Earth objects to help…