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Small BodiesStories, updates, insights, and original analysis from The Planetary Society.
What's the benefit of sample return?
With Hayabusa2 at Ryugu and OSIRIS-REx closing on Bennu, it's the summer of sample return. Why do scientists go to so much trouble for a piece of a another world?
Planetary Defense in the Moroccan Mountains
A little-known observatory is s helping usher an Arab astronomy renaissance.
Let's check in on The Planetary Society's asteroid hunters
The Shoemaker NEO Grant program funds advanced amateur astronomers who help determine if nearby asteroids will hit Earth. Here are some collected reports from our asteroid hunters.
New report explores threat from near-Earth asteroids
How dangerous are near-Earth asteroids, and what will we do if we find one headed toward Earth?
Rotatin' Ryugu!
Hayabusa2 continues to approach asteroid Ryugu, revealing the 900-meter-wide world in all its glory.
Chinese satellite snags new views of Earth from lunar orbit
See the world through the eyes of Longjiang-2.
Meet MMX, Japan's sample return mission to Phobos
NASA is providing an instrument for the mission, which will try to uncover the origins of Phobos and Deimos.
A WIYN-win partnership
NASA and the National Science Foundation are teaming up to observe exoplanets discovered by Kepler and TESS.
Funpost! Space beer face-off
Please Funpost! responsibly.
Cygnus cargo craft will test ability to boost and deorbit the International Space Station
NASA and Orbital ATK are planning a one-minute test burn before Cygnus leaves the station.
Funpost! Audio diaries from simulated Mars
The Habitat is a new podcast about a year-long HI-SEAS mission in Hawaii.
The curious case of the Apollo 4 Earth images
Revisiting images of Earth taken from the uncrewed Apollo 4 command module in 1967.
Funpost! We both began to giggle like school children
NASA astronaut Scott Tingle describes his first rocket launch.
Is NASA painting itself into a corner with its ISS transition plans?
By 2025, NASA wants to create a new humans-in-LEO market, and then become the non-primary customer for that new market.
LightSail 2 launch slips to Fall
The second flight of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket is now scheduled for no earlier than October 30, 2018.
Funpost! Someone is stealing the Enterprise
An appreciation for a scene from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
A brief history of Resource Prospector, NASA's cancelled lunar mission
The mission survived NASA's Journey to Mars era, only to be axed once short-term goals shifted back to the Moon.
Funpost! I do solemnly swear
A far-from-comprehensive look at the oath of office.
Pew pew! Lasers will help determine where LightSail 2 is
The International Laser Ranging Service, or ILRS, will lend its services to the LightSail 2 mission.
Funpost! Can you name a space vehicle for each letter of the alphabet?
There are NASA choices for all letters except Y and Z; for those two, you'll need to go international.