In theory, leaner NASA oversight, greater use of off‑the‑shelf hardware and narrower science goals can cut costs while ...

Get excited about Uranus (and so much more). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The solar system is overflowing with fascinating ...

After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has ...

A huge NASA rover streaking toward Mars to investigate the Red Planet's potential to host life has picked up a new mission objective — help save the space agency's planetary science program. In the ...

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One recommended mission in the planetary science decadal survey would send a mission to Enceladus, an icy, potentially habitable moon of Saturn with a subsurface ocean and plumes. Credit: ...

Jennifer Heldmann stared at the computer screens on her desk, watching as a rocket’s upper stage slammed into a crater near the South Pole of the Moon. In the name of science, a 2.3-ton chunk of steel ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Brian Jackson (Physics) interacts with imagery from NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at “Valinor Hills” (acquired by the agency’s Perseverance Mars rover on Feb. 21, 2024) in the Stein Luminary, for ...

This poll is now closed. Results to come soon, stay tuned! In our September 2025 issue, astronomer and Pluto mission leader S. Alan Stern explores how the field of planetary science has transformed ...