Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an ...

What exists beneath the surface of Jupiter's icy moon, Callisto? This is what a recent study accepted by The Planetary ...

Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back. That's what Andrea Donnellan does. An expert in ...

Planetary science is a multifaceted field that investigates the origin, evolution and present‐day state of planets, moons and other bodies within our Solar System and beyond. By integrating ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

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 ...

NASA says it is “very unlikely” the agency will be able to recover a Mars spacecraft that has been out of contact for more ...

This Panel on Mercury and the Moon is one of six panels providing topical input to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey Steering Group. This panel will discuss the role played by ...

Steven A. Hauck II, professor and chair of the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, will participate in a panel discussion at an event held in honor of the 50th anniversary of ...

This study will describe how international and national planetary protection policy has been formulated and adopted and identify associated lessons to inform future policy development. The National ...

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 ...