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 ...

Planets smaller than Neptune but larger than Earth, with atmospheres saturated with water vapor due to extreme temperatures, ...

Scientists have calculated the odds of a catastrophic asteroid impact compared to other causes of death—to surprising results.

A new international study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters reveals that the boundaries between geological ...

Separately, the NASA program of humans in space began as a cold war effort but has evolved significantly, especially since the end of the Shuttle era. The short-term goal for humans is embodied in the ...

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered dozens of NASA missions over the past 50 years ...

Europlanet has announced the winners of its inaugural Career Medals, which are designed to honour outstanding contributions ...

Researchers used atomic-scale computer simulations to discover the importance of carbon in forming a solid planetary core.

Most cosmic dust exhibits random atomic structures, and appears like soot. Thanks to NGC 6302’s extreme stellar energy, the ...

The looming cancellation of RPS has placed the highest-priority planetary science mission of the coming decade at risk. In 2022, the US space science community ranked a mission to Uranus as its top ...

Using data from NASA’s retired InSight lander, two separate teams of researchers found evidence of a sluggish Martian mantle ...