Articles

Asa Stahl

It only takes a few basic tips to start exploring the night sky.

Kate Howells

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft launched today aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Kate Howells

The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft launched on Oct. 7, 2024, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It will travel to the Didymos-Dimorphos asteroid system to study the aftermath of the first-ever field test of an asteroid deflection technique.

Casey Dreier

Europa Clipper will soon head for Jupiter's icy, potentially habitable moon. Without the advocacy efforts of The Planetary Society and our members, the mission may never have been possible.

Asa Stahl

Catch this once-in-a-lifetime comet over the next few days.

Kate Howells

The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing to launch a mission to study the aftermath of DART's impact on the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos.

Asa Stahl

For a mission that doesn’t aim to find alien life, Europa Clipper may come surprisingly close.

Kate Howells

NASA is preparing to launch its flagship mission to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa. Launching sometime in October 2024 and arriving in 2030, the mission will explore the icy world with a subsurface ocean that scientists think could have conditions favorable to life.

Jason Davis

Looking to the past to guide the search for life.

Andrew Jones

China is in the early stages of planning a huge space observatory to help answer the matter of whether we are alone in the galaxy.

Seven Rasmussen

The habitable zone is a useful concept in astrobiology, but it can sometimes paint an over-simplified picture of planetary habitability.

Asa Stahl

When a skyscraper-sized asteroid narrowly misses Earth in 2029, three spacecraft may be along for the ride.

Asa Stahl

The tentative discovery hints at an habitat where life could potentially thrive.

Seven Rasmussen

Knowing that you've found signs of life beyond Earth may not be as clear-cut and simple as one might think.

Asa Stahl

A single 3.5 billion-year-old rock shows signs of all the conditions life needs to thrive.

Kate Howells

Jupiter has often been thought to protect the inner Solar System from asteroids and comets, but new research has shown that the giant planet may actually increase the risk of an impact.

Jonathan O’Callaghan

The gas giant is the Solar System's largest planet. Here's why it's also the fastest-spinning planet.

Asa Stahl

One rocket could decide how soon humanity returns to the Moon — and maybe one day sets foot on Mars.

Nancy Atkinson

From the dangers of radiation to the complications of landing a crewed spacecraft, there are myriad technical challenges facing human exploration of Mars.

Kate Howells

If you could visit Titan, you'd be in for a very alien experience.