Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida Tech graduate, she leaves with not only a dual degree in planetary science ...

Artist rendering of the Psyche spacecraft in orbit around its namesake asteroid. The robotic spacecraft Psyche has regained propulsion after a snag cut its propellant system in April. Engineers had to ...

Photo Courtesy PEEC PEEC NEWS RELEASE The Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) invites community members, space ...

While visions of Mars colonies, floating cities above Venus, and humans exploring distant moons inspire wonder, the reality ...

Introduction: NASA's solar system exploration paradigm : the first fifty years and a look at the next fifty / James L. Green and Kristen J. Erickson -- Part I. Overview. Exploring the Solar System : ...

Homer Newell and the Origins of Planetary Science in the United States -- The Survival Crisis of the US Solar System Exploration Program in the 1980s -- Faster, Better, Cheaper: A Sociotechnical ...

Far from the Sun’s heat, orbiting the outer planets of the solar system, are moons with oceans of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces. Keith Cooper finds out how planetary scientists are ...

In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, where he introduced the concept of the "universal constructor." The theory ...

Oceans enchant me. They have a magical quality: the soothing rhythm of waves crashing, the vulnerable feeling of smallness that comes from peering into the deep blue depths. Oceans seem to hold ...