• Gifts from above

    Updated: 2023-11-24 15:30:00
    Space exploration bestows us with many gifts, from scientific insights and beautiful images to technological marvels and inspiring achievements. Now it’s your turn to bestow some cosmic gifts.

  • Perfect gifts for space lovers, by space lovers

    Updated: 2023-11-22 15:00:00
    Planetary Society members helped us create our space gift recommendations for this year.

  • How NASA plans to deorbit the International Space Station

    Updated: 2023-11-21 15:30:00
    The aging complex will be replaced by commercially operated space stations, and deorbited as soon as 2030.

  • LightSail 2’s legacy lives on

    Updated: 2023-11-17 15:30:00
    On the one-year anniversary of LightSail 2’s end of flight, we look back at the mission that united so many.

  • How old is the Earth?

    Updated: 2023-11-14 15:30:00
    The Earth is thought to be about 4.54 billion years old. Learn more about how it formed, and how we know when this all happened.

  • ESO Glossary of Acronyms ESO

    Updated: 2023-11-11 09:07:46
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  • Planetary paparazzi

    Updated: 2023-11-10 15:30:00
    Who needs candid celebrity snapshots? We’ve got all the best pics of your favorite planetary bodies.

  • Lucy’s flyby of Dinkinesh: Everything you need to know

    Updated: 2023-11-09 08:00:00
    On Nov. 1, 2023, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew past Dinkinesh, a small asteroid in the main belt, and discovered a binary pair of moonlets in orbit around the asteroid.

  • Why aren't there more close-up images of Uranus and Neptune?

    Updated: 2023-11-06 15:30:00
    There aren't many close-up, high-resolution images of the ice giants Uranus and Neptune. The reason comes down to distance.

  • The best! The farthest! The maximum!

    Updated: 2023-11-03 14:30:00
    Space superlatives abound this week. We’ve made a couple of awards, but the rest are up to you to decide.

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