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The State of Planetary Defense | The Planetary Society The Planetary Report September Solstice 2019
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Detlef Koschny • September 27, 2019 Defending our planet from the hazard of potential asteroid impacts requires investments from the whole world. In Europe, the European Space Agency (ESA) works to study...
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In 1983, Carl Sagan Urged NASA to Send a Mission to Saturn and Titan | The Planetary Society The Planetary Report November/December 1983
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Don’t worry, this was a planned end for a tiny satellite that has been a huge success. At 14:08 UTC on 31 July, Longjiang-2, also known as DSLWP-B, passed behind...
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Last week, scientists gathered at Caltech for the Ninth International Conference on Mars. This conference, which takes place at intervals of several years (the eighth was in 2014), provides an...
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Last month, astronomers announced that they’d snapped a rare image of two planets forming around a young, 6-million-year-old star about 370 light-years away called PDS 70. Now, after closer examination,...
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Before Neil Armstrong could take his “small step for a man” on July 20, 1969, he and the rest of the Apollo 11 crew underwent a rigorous regimen of training...
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On July 28, 1969, four days after Apollo 11 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, famed aviator Charles Lindbergh, who made the first solo, non-stop flight across the Atlantic in...
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Last week NASA released images of astronauts testing out SpaceX’s sleek, white and gray spacesuits. Since NASA shuttered its space shuttle program in 2011, astronauts have hitched rides to the...
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