NASA is ending financial support for several planetary science groups as part of a broader drawdown of the agency’s advisory ...

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

Henry C. Wu, Scientific Officer, GERICS, discusses the role of evidence and science-based solutions for global climate ...

A recent study by geophysicists at Washington State University offers insight into how nutrients may reach the subsurface ...

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 ...

Earth scientist Andrea Donnellan studies the surface of the Earth from the sky to better understand earthquakes, including ...

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 ...

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

New research shows how Jupiter and Saturn developed dramatically different vortices at their north poles. The findings may elucidate not only the planets’ surface weather patterns but also what lies ...

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 ...

As one of four panels that will provide input to the steering committee of "Key Non-Polar Destinations Across the Moon to Address Decadal-level Science Objectives with Human Explorers," the Panel on ...