This new five-minute video from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center shows the upcoming moon…
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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.
New data from NASA’s Curiosity Rover indicate that Mount Sharp on Mars was built by…
After nearly nine years and three billion miles, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has come out…
This new image from the Dawn spacecraft was acquired as part of a final calibration…
A newly published study reveals that small space rocks, or planetesimals, may have bombarded Earth…
Using a combination of data from Cassini’s December 2000 Jupiter flyby and laboratory experiments, new…
NASA scientists are developing the capabilities needed to send humans to an asteroid by 2025…
A team of scientists has developed a new method that allows them to estimate the…
This close-up image of a Martian rock has provided scientists with evidence about wet environmental…
This newly released image of Saturn’s uppermost cloud layers was taken with the Cassini spacecraft…
This three-minute video shows how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere travels around the globe over…
New research from Brown University and Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science shows that warmth and…
Using images NASA’s Voyager-2, astronomer Erich Karkoschka has uncovered features in Uranus’ atmosphere that reveal…
New research reveals the first experimental evidence that our solar system’s protoplanetary disk was shaped…
New data from NASA’s Cassini mission reveal that the color of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot…
During a recent flyby, the Cassini spacecraft observed new, bright features in the seas that…
Data from several spacecraft have revealed that debris from Comet Siding Spring added a temporary…
While testing the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array’s new high-resolution capabilities, astronomers captured the best image…