Spacecraft, what do your robot eyes see?
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:52:54
Cameras on spacecraft are our eyes into the Cosmos. Sometimes they teach us things, sometimes they reveal gaps in our knowledge.
Someone’s aliens
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:52:54Life thrives on Earth, and we even send evidence of our presence out into the Solar System. Is anyone out there looking for us?Inside, underneath, backward, upside-down
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:52:54From holes on Mars to a spun-around moon and a flipped reflection, space science involves looking at things from all different angles.Cloudy skies, smooth sailing
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:52:54A Martian cloud atlas, LightSail wins big, and multiple missions coast toward launch.Your impact: September equinox 2024
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:52:54Exploring Europa and defending Earth.Where Congress Stands on NASA's 2025 budget
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:52:54Weeks before the new fiscal year, Congress still hasn't finalized NASA's 2025 budget.The Tianlin Space Telescope
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:52:54China is in the early stages of planning a huge space observatory to help answer the matter of whether we are alone in the galaxy.New insights into asteroid properties: A STEP Grant update
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:52:54A Planetary Society-funded project to understand asteroids achieved its main goals and scientific objectives this year.How to spot Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:52:54Catch this comet over the next few days, and check back in a couple weeks when it may shine even brighter.The Hera launch: What to expect
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:52:54The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing to launch a mission to study the aftermath of DART's impact on the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos.Extraterrestrial artifacts
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:52:54Could the Solar System host traces of other intelligent life?The Europa Clipper launch: What to expect
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:52:54NASA is preparing to launch its flagship mission to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa. Launching sometime in October 2024 and arriving in 2030, the mission will explore the icy world with a subsurface ocean that scientists think could have conditions favorable to life.Earthlings as aliens
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:52:54Looking at life on Earth from another perspective.Could Europa Clipper find life?
Updated: 2024-10-15 19:52:54For a mission that doesn’t aim to find alien life, Europa Clipper may come surprisingly close.How Astronomers Define Where a Galaxy Ends and Interstellar Space Begins
Updated: 2024-10-15 18:00:00Explore how star formation, gas density, and proximity to other galaxies define where a galaxy ends.Europa Clipper launches on its journey to Jupiter’s icy moon
Updated: 2024-10-14 07:00:00NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft launched today aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.Twinsies!
Updated: 2024-10-11 14:30:00Asteroids that come in pairs, matching volcanic features on Mars and Earth, and the potential space policies of two administrations.NASA's Crewed Mars Mission in the 2030s Could Unlock Some Geologic Mysteries
Updated: 2024-10-08 16:00:00Mars’ craters come from ancient collisions during the formation of the solar system.Hera launches to study the aftermath of an asteroid deflection test
Updated: 2024-10-07 14:58:00The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft launched on Oct. 7, 2024, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It will travel to the Didymos-Dimorphos asteroid system to study the aftermath of the first-ever field test of an asteroid deflection technique.Glitter and glow
Updated: 2024-10-04 14:30:00This week we look forward to launches, gaze at glowing auroras, and get creative with glitter.Europa Clipper: A mission backed by advocates
Updated: 2024-10-01 14:00:00Europa Clipper will soon head for Jupiter's icy, potentially habitable moon. Without the advocacy efforts of The Planetary Society and our members, the mission may never have been possible.