This HiRISE image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captures a new, dated (within about…
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Planetary science is the interdisciplinary study of planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and other bodies in our solar system and beyond. It explores their composition, formation, atmospheres, geology, and potential for life—linking astronomy, geology, physics, and chemistry to understand planetary processes. Researchers use spacecraft missions, telescopes, and laboratory simulations to study worlds like Mars, Venus, and the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn, uncovering clues about Earth’s origins and the dynamics of planetary systems. From analyzing meteorites to exploring exoplanets, planetary science seeks to answer fundamental questions about the diversity, evolution, and habitability of worlds across the universe.
We’ve all heard about the search for life on other planets, but what about looking…
Over the past several years, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has transformed our understanding…
A new analysis of data from NASA’s Dawn mission suggests that organic matter may exist…
Two independent teams of astronomers have used ALMA to uncover convincing evidence that three young…
NASA will host a media teleconference at 1:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, June 13, to discuss…
Electrically charged particles from the sun strike moons and planets with great force. The consequences…
Experiments conducted at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) helped to…
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is taking a giant leap focusing the agency’s exploration of…
Updated at 4:30 p.m. PDT on June 10, 2018 NASA engineers received a transmission from…
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found new evidence preserved in rocks on Mars that suggests the…
Newly discovered dunes on Pluto tell us the dwarf planet’s geology and atmosphere is far…
NASA has approved an update to Juno’s science operations until July 2021. This provides for…
What happens when the solar wind suddenly starts to blow significantly harder? According to two…
The most visually striking feature on Saturn’s icy moon Tethys is Odysseus crater. An enormous…
Ever since NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft flew past Jupiter in March, 1979, scientists have wondered…
Dunes are known to form on Earth, Mars, Venus, Titan, and Comet 67P – and…
See a jet stream speeding through Jupiter’s atmosphere in this new view taken by NASA’s…