Follow the foot traffic. Sidewalk astronomers often set up at street fairs, outdoor events, nightlife hotspots, or by any venue where a lot of people tend to pass by. If you want to set up at an event ...

For decades, it has passed over Mars like a rumor, glimpsed only sparingly by rovers and orbiters, its shadowy face watching down over Mars’ vermilion seas of sand and dust in silence. Phobos, named ...

Artemis III is the next step in NASA’s plan to bring humankind back to the Moon. In 2027, the mission will launch astronauts into orbit around Earth, where they will dock with two test versions of ...

Around the time of Apollo 11, when Wernher von Braun was asked about what stood in the way of sending humans to Mars, he reportedly answered, “political will.” But recent events (including a medical ...

The rays extending from Tycho crater, one of the most visible craters on the Moon, are longer than those around Mercury’s Hokusai crater. They span more than 1,500 kilometers (930 miles), over 40% of ...

The House budget bill that includes NASA funding just cleared a key hurdle, advancing out of the Appropriations Committee. This is the first funding bill for FY 2027 to be released and reach this ...

Three days before Artemis II launched astronauts to the Moon, I asked people on the streets of Cape Canaveral, Florida, what they thought of the mission. By far the most common answer was: “What ...

An extinction-level event can be thought of as a sudden, external calamity wiping out a given species. For the dinosaurs, it was the Chicxulub impactor. For NASA’s science program, it very well may be ...

Only days after NASA launched astronauts to the Moon for the first time in decades, the White House’s budgeting office announced a plan to reduce NASA’s workforce by thousands and cancel over 50 NASA ...

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In February 2026, Jennifer Vaughn took the helm as chief executive officer of The Planetary Society. Jenn first joined the Society’s staff in 1997 as an editorial assistant for The Planetary Report, ...