A newly analyzed planetary system spotted by NASA’s TESS mission is challenging long-standing assumptions about how planets ...

ANALYSIS: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help answer some of the biggest questions about the universe when it ...

N ASA is planning a pretty neat experiment for later this year, setting deliberate fires whilst on the surface of the Moon, ...

The Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science (CAPS) provides an independent, authoritative forum for identifying and discussing issues in astrobiology and planetary science with the research ...

A strange “forbidden” planet spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope is turning planetary science on its head. TOI-5205 b, a Jupiter-sized world orbiting a small, cool star, has an atmosphere ...

In a science lab on the fourth floor of UTSA's Multidisciplinary Studies Building, UTSA students engage in meticulous choreography around a glowing furnace, melting rocks to produce lava. The task ...

For those who watch gravitational waves roll in from the universe, GW250114 is a big one. It's the clearest gravitational wave signal from a binary black hole merger to date, and it gives researchers ...

An analysis by the nonprofit science advocacy group The Planetary Society has identified 54 NASA missions that may be endangered as a result of the White House’s budget proposal for the coming fiscal ...

A new study proposes detecting life in space by spotting patterns across many planets instead of focusing on one at a time.

Leaders from 20 national science, education, and space organizations, led by The Planetary Society and its CEO Bill Nye, along with 300 advocates from across the country, gathered to urge protection ...

The 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) will be held at The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel and Convention Center in The Woodlands, Texas and virtually on March 10–14, 2025. LPSC is a ...

You can’t stare out at the rings of Saturn from the frozen surface of Titan, but you can see what that view might look like thanks to a long-time local scientist and his paintbrush. Bill Hartmann has ...