• Keeping an eye on things

    Updated: 2024-03-29 14:30:00
    Measuring changes in the Moon’s size, watching for eruptions on the Sun’s surface, and monitoring budget developments.

  • Should you be worried about solar storms?

    Updated: 2024-03-26 14:00:00
    As the Sun nears solar maximum, the odds of potentially dangerous solar storms go up. What could one do to Earth?

  • Is the Moon shrinking?

    Updated: 2024-03-25 14:00:00
    The Moon is shrinking in both actual volume and its apparent size from Earth’s perspective. We explain how scientists know this, why it happens, and how it might affect Earth.

  • Hidden depths and a cosmic mystery

    Updated: 2024-03-22 14:30:00
    Jupiter has much more going on beneath its outer clouds, and NASA invites players to unravel a fictional mystery.

  • Queqiao-2: China’s bridge for lunar exploration

    Updated: 2024-03-22 14:00:00
    China's Queqiao-2 spacecraft will relay communications to Earth to support lunar far side and south pole missions, including missions led by international partners.

  • The Planetary Society advocacy priorities in NASA’s final 2024 budget

    Updated: 2024-03-20 07:00:00
    Funding for the Near-Earth Object Surveyor, support for VERITAS, and a second lease on life for Mars Sample Return were all included in the final congressional budget for NASA in 2024.

  • NASA's FY 2025 Budget

    Updated: 2024-03-12 06:00:00
    The White House proposed $25.4 billion for NASA in 2025, a modest increase from the previous year, and far less than originally planned.

  • Seizing upon syzygy

    Updated: 2024-03-11 14:01:00
    How scientists use total solar eclipses as opportunities to do solar science.

  • An exquisite cosmic coincidence

    Updated: 2024-03-11 14:01:00
    Why eclipses on Earth are unlike anything else in the Solar System.

  • Science to satisfy curiosity

    Updated: 2024-03-08 15:30:00
    The Curiosity rover is climbing a mountain to gain knowledge. Bringing back Mars samples will gain us even more.

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