Cosmic Concert Webcast Tonight at 7pm PDT / 10pm EDT

Posted by Mat Kaplan on 2013/06/17 06:59 CDT

We've got a full house for this evening's Planetary Radio Live, but you can watch the live webcast with singer/songwriter Peter Mayer and Bill Nye the Science Guy.

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Great News: New Horizons to "stay the course" at Pluto

Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2013/06/17 02:47 CDT

This is extremely good news: after more than a year of analysis, the New Horizons mission and NASA have concluded and agreed that New Horizons' originally-planned trajectory past Pluto is likely safe from dust.

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Exploring Ten Years' Worth of Mars Express Data

Posted by Bill Dunford on 2013/06/13 01:09 CDT | 2 comments

Mars Express has been in flight for a decade, more than enough time to send home some amazing finds.

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Planetary Society Hangout: LaserBees, Asteroids, and Planet Vacuums

Posted by Casey Dreier on 2013/06/13 12:39 CDT | 1 comments

We check in with Dr. Bruce Betts, our Director of Projects, on the latest from our current programs funded by our members.

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Planetary Defense Conference 2013 Part 3

Posted by Bruce Betts on 2013/06/12 09:19 CDT | 3 comments

Part 3 of Bruce Betts' wrap up from the Planetary Defense Conference 2013 focuses on the Laser Bees (asteroid deflection method) project and Laser Bees researcher Alison Gibbings.

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China launches three-person crew to visit Tiangong 1 space station

Posted by Jason Davis on 2013/06/11 03:38 CDT | 2 comments

China's Shenzhou 10 spacecraft is bound for space station Tiangong 1 following a successful liftoff from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia.

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