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Stories, updates, insights, and original analysis from The Planetary Society.

Glitter and glow

This week we look forward to launches, gaze at glowing auroras, and get creative with glitter.

Europa Clipper: A mission backed by advocates

Europa Clipper will soon head for Jupiter's icy, potentially habitable moon. Without the advocacy efforts of The Planetary Society and our members, the mission may never have been possible.

The Hera launch: What to expect

The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing to launch a mission to study the aftermath of DART's impact on the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos.

The Europa Clipper launch: What to expect

NASA is preparing to launch its flagship mission to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa. Launching as early as Oct. 10, 2024, and arriving in 2030, the mission will explore the icy world with a subsurface ocean that scientists think could have conditions favorable to life.

Someone’s aliens

Life thrives on Earth, and we even send evidence of our presence out into the Solar System. Is anyone out there looking for us?

The Tianlin Space Telescope

China is in the early stages of planning a huge space observatory to help answer the matter of whether we are alone in the galaxy.

Super-size it

Europa Clipper is a big spacecraft with big solar panels, all so it can perform a big mission. The galaxy is big too, and a Planetary Society member painted it that way.

Wow! Boom! Ultra cool!

The “Wow!" signal has a new explanation, and an ultra-cool experiment advances quantum sensing in space. Plus, making an asteroid go “boom!” might work, depending on the circumstances.

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