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The latest stories from The Planetary Society, featuring humanity's quest to explore worlds, find life, and defend Earth.
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China’s Tianwen-2 mission has (probably) arrived at a quasi-moon of Earth
The probe aims to bring back a sample from the asteroid Kamo'oalewa.
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Artículos en español
Una colección de artículos sobre investigación planetaria y exploración espacial en español.
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Deutsche Artikel
Eine Sammlung von Artikeln über Planetenforschung und Raumfahrt auf Deutsch.
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Articles en français
Un recueil d'articles en français sur la recherche planétaire et l'exploration spatiale.
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Artikel auf Deutsch
Eine Sammlung von Artikeln über Planetenforschung und Raumfahrt auf Deutsch.
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Solstices, equinoxes, and seasons
How Earth’s tilted axis causes our seasons.
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The right stuff
Getting people into space takes the right tech, the right talent, and the right policies.
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A STEP Grant update: Growing our understanding of deep-space agriculture
The 2023 round of The Planetary Society’s Science and Technology Empowered by the Public (STEP) Grants awarded $50,000 USD to a team led by Dr. Andrew Palmer of the Florida Institute of Technology to study deep-space agriculture to address the challenge of feeding astronauts on long-duration missions.
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What we know about Artemis III: NASA announces crew
The next step in NASA’s plan to bring humankind back to the Moon.
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Are we ready to send humans to Mars?
The physiological challenges of a mission to the red planet
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The consensus problem
Why space science has goals and human exploration has funding but neither has both
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What's actually new about NASA's Artemis missions?
How the technology of Artemis II builds on the past and relies on the new.
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Astonishing, unprecedented, explosive
This week in space: an amazing view, a dangerous new rule, an enormous explosion, and more.
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When science answers to politics
The White House Office of Management and Budget has proposed new rules that would require political appointees, not scientists, to decide which research receives federal grants in the United States.
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Big impacts
New asteroid discoveries, big changes at NASA, and breathtaking views of Saturn.
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What would it be like to fly through Saturn’s rings?
Saturn’s rings are one of the most beautiful sights in the Solar System, but most of us have no idea what they look like up close.
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With a little help from our planet friends
Speeding up, slowing down, capturing amazing views, making discoveries — all thanks to planets.
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Astronomers thought JWST might find signs of life. Now they have a new plan.
An update in the search for alien life beyond the Solar System.
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UAP? In this case, it’s only a model.
A model Mars capsule flew through the air. Alien ships likely didn’t.
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