NASA is quietly ending financial support for independent planetary science advisory groups, according to a letter posted to ...

Thick, swirling clouds cover Jupiter from pole to pole. They hold water like Earth’s clouds, but at far greater density.

Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an energetic and electrically charged environment where dust storms and dust devils ...

A recent study by geophysicists at Washington State University offers insight into how nutrients may reach the subsurface ...

Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back. That's what Andrea Donnellan does. An expert in ...

I'm a planetary scientist who was born the year of Sputnik's launch. Over the course of my 40-year career, I've witnessed not one but at least five separate revolutions that fundamentally transformed ...

Henry C. Wu, Scientific Officer, GERICS, discusses the role of evidence and science-based solutions for global climate ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

On the evening of February 28, 2026, skywatchers will be treated to a rare spectacle as at least six planets become visible shortly after sunset.

Any project, supported or not by a committee, that is currently being worked on or is considered active, and will have an end date. The Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science (CAPS) provides ...