Meet Earth’s newest quasi-moon, recently discovered 2025 PN7

Newly discovered quasi-moon 2025 PN7 shares a similar orbit with Earth. But from Earth’s perspective, it…

NASA Sets Coverage for Northrop Grumman CRS-23, SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch

NASA, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 6:11 p.m. EDT, Sunday, Sept. 14,…

Planetary Radio: Book Club Edition

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A test bed in the search for life

The other two expeditions revisited these same sites in the dead of winter, when the lakes…

A cosmic perspective worth fighting for

NASA's science budget is under threat. Here's what that could mean to the human endeavor of…

NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio in Space Station Cupola

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio poses for a picture in the International Space Station’s cupola on Oct.…

The pale blue dot 35 years later

The photo was taken at the suggestion of Sagan, a Planetary Society co-founder who was a…

NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio in Space Station Cupola

NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio is pictured inside the cupola, the International…

Exoplanet 40 light years from Earth may have right conditions for life

Artist’s impression of the planet TRAPPIST-1e NASA/JPL-Caltech There are promising signs that one of the planets…

Rethinking the atoms of life

Old recipes While scientists often test these chemistries by whipping them up in the lab, Kaçar…