Astronomer and Pluto mission leader S. Alan Stern explores how the field has transformed during his decades-long career.

Scientists have recreated the extreme conditions found on the frozen moons of the outer solar system and uncovered something ...

Planetary science is a multifaceted field that investigates the origin, evolution and present‐day state of planets, moons and other bodies within our Solar System and beyond. By integrating ...

Europlanet has announced the winners of its inaugural Career Medals, which are designed to honour outstanding contributions ...

For the last month and change, you might've seen the headlines about the planetary alignment, or a planetary parade, going on in our solar system. And that's true. In January 2025, Venus, Mars, ...

Daejeon, South Korea, and Vilnius, Lithuania, 2 June 2025 – Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics), a leading small satellite bus manufacturer and mission integrator, has been selected by the Institute ...

Using data from NASA’s retired InSight lander, two separate teams of researchers found evidence of a sluggish Martian mantle ...