This brings us to the complexity of NASA's announcement. "Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by ...

The news: NASA's Perseverance rover had found potential signs of ancient microbial life on Mars. The discovery represents "the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars," NASA acting ...

Planetary Society leaders applaud the choice of Michael Griffin as proposed NASA Administrator, as announced today by President Bush. The appointment comes as Congress debates America’s role in space ...

Impact history should be considered a key factor in the search for habitable Earth-like exoplanets. Southwest Research ...

Planetary exploration has long been at the forefront of scientific endeavour, with mobile robotics and terramechanics playing pivotal roles in the design and operation of exploration vehicles. Mobile ...

NASA aims to study rocky planets similar to Earth and analyse their atmospheres for biosignatures. The James Webb Space ...

Researchers from Western University’s Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration (CPSX) and the Canadian Lunar Research Network (CLRN) will play a major role in NASA’s recently announced Solar ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...

Space exploration is about to enter a new era later this year, as American space agency NASA is getting ready to launch perhaps its most ambitious alien-life-hunting mission ever. Centered around a ...

Homer Newell and the Origins of Planetary Science in the United States -- The Survival Crisis of the US Solar System Exploration Program in the 1980s -- Faster, Better, Cheaper: A Sociotechnical ...

Pt. 1. The golden age, 1957-1982. The beginning -- Of landers and orbiters -- The grandest tour -- Pt. 2. Hiatus and renewal, 1983-1996. The decade of Halley -- The era of flagships -- Faster, cheaper ...