NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured a new image of Jupiter this past week. During Earth-Trojan asteroid…
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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.
This newly released Cassini image shows Saturn’s ring-embedded moon Daphnis. Daphnis, one of Saturn’s ring-embedded…
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has detected unusual pulsations in the…
Carnegie Institution for Science has made a huge dataset of 1,600 nearby stars available to…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft captured this new view of Saturn’s F ring this past December. When…
Astronomers use new craters on Mars to see beneath the dust blanket and determine the…
Using Cassini’s images, amateur astronomers create their own spectacular scenes. Although the motivation behind NASA’s…
This newly released image shows a color enhanced view of Jupiter. This enhanced-color image of…
This new HiRISE image shows a recent cluster of impacts on Mars. The dark spots…
New research expands how habitable zones are defined by taking into account the impact of…
This new HiRISE image shows dunes and gullies on the surface of Mars. Gullies are…
New research reveals that Mars had far too little carbon dioxide about 3.5 billion years…
This newly released Cassini image shows the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Enceladus. Seen from outside, Enceladus…
ESA’s Mars Express provides a new mosaic of Mars. A new mosaic from ESA’s Mars…
NASA’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) gets a closer look at impact ejecta on…
Today NASA’s Juno spacecraft will make its fourth flyby over Jupiter’s mysterious cloud tops. At…
A new device on the W.M. Keck Observatory has delivered its first images, showing a…
This newly released HiRISE image shows dunes on the surface of Mars during the Martian…