Author’s note: In this article, I will discuss close electoral contests. Any mention of close races or expected outcomes is neither my personal hope nor an expert analysis, but rather the result of an ...
The print edition of this article was published under the title "Sky wanderers to dominant orbiters" The field of planetary science isn’t often plagued by drama, but there are occasional controversies ...
For the first time in over a year, NASA's Perseverance rover has collected a sample on Mars. On Oct. 24, the rover drilled a ...
Pasadena, CA (June 14, 2019) — In advance of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, The Planetary Society released comprehensive new cost analysis and Apollo mission resources to better ...
Chandrayaan-3 was a Moon lander and rover mission by India’s space agency. The spacecraft launched on July 14, 2023 and touched down in the Moon’s south polar region on August 23, 2023. The ...
The Planetary Society maintains a comprehensive, open dataset that tracks NASA's annual budget requests, congressional appropriations, and final obligated expenditures from fiscal year (FY) 1959 to ...
Phobos and Deimos are the two small, rocky moons that orbit Mars. Mars and Earth are the only rocky planets in the Solar System with moons. PlanetVac, a sample collection tool crowdfunded by The ...
Chandrayaan-1 was India’s first mission to another world. The orbiter discovered water on the Moon. Technologies developed for Chandrayaan-1 helped kickstart India's planetary science program. On ...
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Tomorrow morning, in a corner of Utah wedged between the Great Salt Lake and Idaho border, NASA and Orbital ATK are test-firing a solid rocket booster. The 54-meter rocket—about the length of 12 ...
Annular eclipses are a very special type of solar eclipse. During an annular eclipse, the Moon is centered in front of the Sun but doesn’t completely obscure it, instead leaving a ring of sunlight ...
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