Chop Shop on Tuesday (April 8) began seeking fans of robotic satellites and interplanetary spacecraft to help them create a ...

Imminent loss of NASA's Aura and Canada's SCISAT will severely diminish scientists’ ability to monitor ozone-depleting substances in the stratosphere.

This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

Astronomy and planetary science are the study of objects and phenomena that occur beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. This includes investigating stars and their interaction with each other and the ...

Among the regular moons, around 20 are also considered major moons — meaning they are large enough to have a rounded shape caused by their gravity, according to The Planetary Society.

He also received substantive honors, including election to one of the oldest and grandest institutions of science, the Royal Society. The fellowship put Musk in elevated company: In 2018 ...

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“That’s zero, folks!” quipped Richard Binzel, an MIT professor of planetary science who studies asteroids, in an email. Sign up for The China Report Beginning this spring, Andrew Jones will ...

Tonight seven planets will briefly appear in the night sky in a "planetary parade". Stargazers will be able to see all seven planets - the entire solar system, minus Earth - simultaneously ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life were astonishingly widespread in the early solar system ...

Josh Bartosiewicz, 31, a seventh- and eighth-grade teacher at the Utnquowa School in Fairfield, is competing in the "America’s Favorite Teacher" award, a contest that benefits the Planetary Society.