NASA is quietly ending financial support for independent planetary science advisory groups, according to a letter posted to the agency’s website on January 16. The affected groups have historically ...

Geophysicists at Washington State University have uncovered a possible explanation for how nutrients may travel into the subsurface ocean of Europa, a moon of Jupiter that ranks among the strongest ...

I'm a planetary scientist who was born the year of Sputnik's launch. Over the course of my 40-year career, I've witnessed not one but at least five separate revolutions that fundamentally transformed ...

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In a science lab on the fourth floor of UTSA's Multidisciplinary Studies Building, UTSA students engage in meticulous choreography around a glowing furnace, melting rocks to produce lava. The task ...

MACAO -- The 2026 Macao International Forum on Space and Planetary Sciences kicked off on Tuesday, drawing more than 300 ...

Shannon Curry remembers the first time she saw the moon up close. She was an undergraduate at Tufts University doing research in Oracle, Arizona, and got the chance to see the moon through a ...

Bill Nye “The Science Guy” is stepping down as CEO of Pasadena’s Planetary Society after 15 years at the helm, but he’s not ...

A rare astronomical event will display six planets in alignment, visible after sunset, giving skywatchers a spectacular ...

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