New research expands how habitable zones are defined by taking into account the impact of…
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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 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…
A new study on polygon-forming ridges on Mars examines the Medusae Fossae region straddling the…
Engineers developed the model as part of its Space Weather Modeling Framework, which is the…
Using a spinning table and a massive garbage can, new experiments simulated Jupiter’s swirling winds…
This new image from HiRISE shows the layered bedrock in the volcanic plains of Lunae…
This High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) image reveals the changing dunes of Wirtz Crater…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft gets a closer look at one of Saturn’s icy moons (Tethys). Tethys,…
New SOFIA observations show the true composition of Ceres, revealing that it does not appear…
A new NASA video uses more than 100 images taken by the New Horizons Spacecraft…
This new Cassini image features one of Saturn’s small moons. The wavemaker moon, Daphnis, is…