Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick ...

“It’s 2001, and a new space odyssey has begun,” commented Louis Friedman, Executive Director of The Planetary Society, on last night’s arrival of NASA’s Mars Odyssey at the Red Planet.Ê “Not only is ...

The Planetary Society’s silica-glass DVD is ready to launch to Mars on board Phoenix, NASA’s newest Scout mission led by Principal Investigator Peter Smith at the University of Arizona. Attached to ...

NASA’s presumptive next leader wants to outsource more of the space agency’s interplanetary science. The newly launched ...

The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science ...

Since comet 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object, was discovered on 1 July 2025, astronomers worldwide have worked ...

“It’s a huge privilege to be leading a mission to Mars,” said Robert Lillis, the UC Berkeley planetary scientist leading the ...

Look low on the southwestern horizon at sunset on Nov. 12 for a chance to see swift Mercury close to the red light of Mars in ...

That budgetary change aligns with the priorities of Elon Musk, who founded his SpaceX rocket company two decades ago with dreams of one day sending colonists to Mars. By Kenneth Chang The 46-year-old ...

Save NASA Science coalition praises the Shift4 CEO and private astronaut as an ‘outspoken advocate' for space exploration.

It’s budget-palooza, NASA nerds. For the first time in more than a decade, the US space agency is grappling with budget cuts. Be forewarned, there will be a lot of numbers in this story, but we’ll do ...

As much as we know today about the planets of the solar system, it’s almost incomprehensible that a mere 50 years ago we knew almost nothing about them. Observations of even Mars and Venus, Earth’s ...