Planetary science is the study of the celestial bodies that orbit stars, with a particular focus on our own solar system. This includes studying the formation and evolution of planets, the moons ...

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity — or not.

Ice may be present a few centimetres below the Moon’s surface in more areas of the lunar polar regions than was previously thought due to large, yet highly localised, variations in surface ...

How do rogue planetary-mass objects -- celestial bodies with masses between stars and planets -- form? An international team of astronomers has used advanced simulations to show that these enigmatic ...

The findings were published March 6 in The Planetary Science Journal. Interstellar objects are astronomical material, like asteroids or comets, not gravitationally bound to a star. They can come ...

In January 2025, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were all visible in the night sky. And in February, 2025, Mercury will join the fun, with all seven of our planetary neighbors visible ...

in the journal Science Advances. "It suggests that the evolution of complex life may be less about luck and more about the interplay between life and its environment, opening up exciting new ...