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 ...

If you’re getting ready to witness an eclipse, you’ll encounter some vocabulary that you might not know. Here is your complete guide to the terminology used to talk about total solar eclipses, partial ...

HANNAH WAKEFORD is the Giacconi Fellow at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. GJ1214b GJ 1214b is a "super-Earth" orbiting a small star located 40 light-years from our solar ...

What happens when scientists fundamentally disagree about planetary bodies? It happens more often than you might think. These disagreements are often fundamental: How did the Moon get its craters?

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, ...

In the time it takes our planet to go around the Sun, we do a lot of exploring. This year, new missions took off, a powerful observatory began examining the sky, and seasoned spacecraft kept up their ...

When an astrobiologist says “life is hard,” they may be speaking on a cosmic level. They could mean that life itself is a puzzle we are nowhere near solving. “We’re like second graders when it comes ...

Our search for planets around other stars in our galaxy has yielded us more than 4,500 worlds. Quite a few of these exoplanets seem to be Earth-like, where surface conditions could sustain liquid ...

Psyche will be the first mission ever to a metal-rich asteroid. Its target, also named Psyche, could be the exposed core of a would-be planet, or a core that was smashed and reformed, or an asteroid ...

Total solar eclipses generate a lot of excitement, and for good reason: being in the path of totality is an amazing experience. But that doesn’t mean it’s the only way to enjoy an eclipse. Witnessing ...

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