This newly released image from the Cassini Spacecraft shows Saturn’s moons Tethys and Rhea. Similar…
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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 four minute ScienceCasts video details the coming close encounter between Earth and Jupiter.…
New research suggests that future searches for habitable planets and for the signals from extraterrestrial…
New observations from NASA’s MAVEN Mission have scientists closer to solving the mystery of how…
Newly published research details the varying surface temperatures on Saturn’s moon Titan at two-year intervals,…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has measured the rotation rate of…
New images from the New Horizons Spacecraft suggest that Pluto’s moon Charon once had a…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers reveal that exoplanet 55 Cancri e has a dry…
In this newly released Cassini spacecraft image, Dione appears cut in two by Saturn’s razor-thin…
How to make sense of Pluto’s surprising geological complexity? To help understand the diversity of…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft views Saturn’s moon Tethys. Saturn’s moon Tethys appears to float between two…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals that rocky worlds share similar structures,…
Using the ALMA and IRAM telescopes, a team of astronomers has made the first direct…
Launched in 2011, the Juno spacecraft will arrive at Jupiter in 2016 to study Jupiter…
New data from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft reveals that there is little correlation between how dense…
New data from the New Horizons Spacecraft reveals more water ice on Pluto’s surface than…
Take a flight over dwarf planet Ceres in this video made with images from NASA’s…
The soft, bright-and-dark bands revealed in this new image from the Cassini Spacecraft are the…