The Planetary Society announces a new partnership with GalaxyBox - the subscription box for space enthusiasts.

South Korea launched Danuri (also known as the Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter or KPLO) to the Moon on Aug. 5, 2022. It entered lunar orbit in December. Danuri is studying the Moon’s surface and help ...

Join us with Jenn Vaughn, CEO of The Planetary Society, in cities across the country for an intimate gathering of Planetary Society members. Share your passion for space exploration, get an exclusive ...

The Planetary Science Budget Dataset integrates the spending history, by year, of every NASA planetary science mission and related activities. This integrated, annualized dataset enables improved ...

The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity project cost $2.53 billion, of which $2.42 billion was for spacecraft development and launch, and $116 million was for 98 weeks of operations during its ...

The Viking missions cost $1.06 billion, which paid for two orbiters and two landers that successfully touched down on Mars in 1976. This was a substantial investment, and, when adjusted for inflation, ...

Did you know that the Moon looks different from Earth’s northern and southern hemispheres? Someone looking at the Moon from our north pole would see it upside down compared to someone seeing it from ...

This is your one-stop space exploration and astronomy calendar for 2026: from mission launches and space exploration milestones to celestial events and exciting changes in our Solar System, it’s all ...

What are solar eclipse glasses? Solar eclipse glasses use lenses that are made of black polymer, a flexible resin infused with carbon particles. They are about 100,000 times darker than ordinary ...

The most exciting moment in Contact isn’t Ellie’s trip through spacetime, nor is it the catastrophic attack on the first machine; it’s something far too rare in cinema: a moment of discovery; the ...

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Two small spacecraft the size and shape of cheese wheels have made history by sending home pictures of their successful landing on an asteroid. The probes, collectively named MINERVA-II1, were dropped ...