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The next chapter in Mars and exoplanet exploration. Accelerate progress in our three core enterprises — Explore Worlds, Find Life, and Defend Earth. You can support the entire fund, or designate a ...
We tend to call Mars the red planet, but this recent image from ESA’s Mars Express orbiter reveals a world of coral pink and pearly white. This is the Thyles Rupes region of Mars, with dramatic cliff ...
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 ...
Only 4 spacecraft have ever made it out to Saturn. Our most comprehensive look at the planet came from NASA and the European Space Agency's Cassini-Huygens mission, which spent 13 years exploring ...
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, ...
The next chapter in Mars and exoplanet exploration. Accelerate progress in our three core enterprises — Explore Worlds, Find Life, and Defend Earth. You can support the entire fund, or designate a ...
The possibility of extraterrestrial life has always fascinated humans. People have speculated about alien life on Mars and other nearby planets ever since we realized they were different from the ...
“Vermin of the sky,” was the phrase many astronomers attributed to asteroids as recently as the 1970s and 1980s. They were seen as little objects that got in the way of serious astronomy. NASA had ...