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An exciting discovery on Mars

NASA’s Perseverance rover has identified a potential biosignature on Mars.

NASA: Perseverance found possible biosignatures in Martian rock

NASA’s Perseverance rover has identified a potential sign of past life on Mars — not a definitive detection, but perhaps the most compelling hint yet.

Introducing Ari Koeppel, our first AAAS Policy Fellow

In a milestone that reflects our expanding advocacy and outreach presence in Washington, D.C., Ari Koeppel will join The Planetary Society as the organization's first AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow.

A cosmic perspective worth fighting for

NASA's science budget is under threat. Here's what that could mean to the human endeavor of exploration.

A test bed in the search for life

Updates from a Planetary Society STEP Grant-funded project.

Rethinking the atoms of life

Astrobiologists aren't just looking at other worlds to search for life; they're looking back to ancient Earth and considering alternate biochemistries.

Exoplanet with Clouds Orbiting Red Dwarf

Other Earths

Astronomers are closing in on planets that might be like our own.

The pale blue dot 35 years later

On its 35th anniversary, a reflection on what the pale blue dot means to us.

Are you ready for your close-up?

Close-ups of the Sun’s coronal loops and a tiny piece of Bennu can teach us a lot.

Rock, ice, and glass

The Solar System is full of rocky and icy bodies, but this particular galaxy is made of glass.

Cassini view of Enceladus, 15 February 2016

China eyes Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus in the hunt for habitability

China’s Deep Space Exploration Laboratory and the Shanghai Institute of Satellite Engineering have proposed an orbiter and lander mission to explore Enceladus with a key focus on the moon’s potential habitability.