• Spacecraft, what do your robot eyes see?

    Updated: 2024-10-15 22:07:07
    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 22:07:07
    Life 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 22:07:07
    From 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 22:07:07
    A Martian cloud atlas, LightSail wins big, and multiple missions coast toward launch.

  • Your impact: September equinox 2024

    Updated: 2024-10-15 22:07:07
    Exploring Europa and defending Earth.

  • Where Congress Stands on NASA's 2025 budget

    Updated: 2024-10-15 22:07:07
    Weeks before the new fiscal year, Congress still hasn't finalized NASA's 2025 budget.

  • The Tianlin Space Telescope

    Updated: 2024-10-15 22:07:07
    China 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 22:07:07
    A 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 22:07:07
    Catch this once-in-a-lifetime comet over the next few days.

  • The Hera launch: What to expect

    Updated: 2024-10-15 22:07:07
    The 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 22:07:07
    Could the Solar System host traces of other intelligent life?

  • The Europa Clipper launch: What to expect

    Updated: 2024-10-15 22:07:07
    NASA 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 22:07:07
    Looking at life on Earth from another perspective.

  • Could Europa Clipper find life?

    Updated: 2024-10-15 22:07:07
    For a mission that doesn’t aim to find alien life, Europa Clipper may come surprisingly close.

  • Connecting ancient life to other worlds

    Updated: 2024-10-15 22:07:07
    Looking to the past to guide the search for life.

  • Europa Clipper launches on its journey to Jupiter’s icy moon

    Updated: 2024-10-14 07:00:00
    NASA’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 14:30:00
    Asteroids that come in pairs, matching volcanic features on Mars and Earth, and the potential space policies of two administrations.

  • Hera launches to study the aftermath of an asteroid deflection test

    Updated: 2024-10-07 14:58:00
    The 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 14:30:00
    This 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 14:00:00
    Europa 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.

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