In celebration of its 11th anniversary on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover captured this panorama view…
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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.
A newly published study shows evidence that transient water flowed on the surface of Vesta,…
The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer has completed its first study of dust in the “habitable…
A new three minute video uses data collected by Cassini’s imaging cameras and the Huygens…
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has captured new images of dwarf planet Ceres. As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft…
After a voyage of more than 3 billion miles, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is ready…
Numerical calculations made by researchers at the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of…
A newly published study from researchers at MIT and Purdue University reveals that chondrules were…
Ten years ago, ESA’s Huygens probe entered the history books by descending to the surface…
The Next-Generation Transit Survey has achieved first light and will focus on discovering Neptune-sized and…
Using a giant array of radio-telescope antennas and data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, astronomers have…
Using the High-Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), astronomers show that the recipe for Earth…
Using Kepler data, a team of astronomers has discovered eight new planets orbiting their stars…
A newly published study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals why oceans on super-Earths,…
This Mars Express image shows a region of Mars filled with cliffs, trenches, faults, giant…
After 87 months in space, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is currently 400,000 miles from Ceres and…
New research on a Martian rock reveals a record of the planet’s climate billions of…
This newly released NASA image shows an area on the surface of Mars (approximately 1.5…