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Small BodiesStories, updates, insights, and original analysis from The Planetary Society.
I spy with new eyes
Vera Rubin releases its first images, asteroid discovery kicks up a notch, and JWST may have discovered its first planet.
Save NASA Science Campaign progress report
A status update from The Planetary Society's policy experts.
Updates from our asteroid-hunting Shoemaker NEO Grant winners
An overview of updates from some of our previous Shoemaker NEO Grant winners.
Volcanic inactivity
Most of the Solar System’s volcanoes are dead — but not all of them. NASA’s budget is still in trouble, but people are speaking up.
The 2025 Cosmos Award winner: Dava Sobel
The Planetary Society is proud to announce the newest recipient of the Cosmos Award for Outstanding Public Presentation of Science, author Dava Sobel.
The Space Advocate Newsletter, June 2025
Unprecedented. Unstrategic. Wasteful.
Peaks and troughs
The Sun’s activity is peaking, while NASA’s budget is facing historic lows.
Capturing magic
A photographer’s guide to auroras.
It's not magic; it's magnetic!
The magnetism behind spectacular phenomena.
Extraterrestrial lights
How other worlds experience auroras.
Needles in the haystack
How advanced amateurs defend Earth from asteroids.
The LightSail mission: From concept to reality
How a grassroots movement sailed on sunlight.
Not too hot to handle
How a spacecraft is able to touch the Sun.
NASA's disastrous 2026 budget proposal in seven charts
The White House has put forward a radical, wasteful proposal for NASA. We have the data to prove it.
A crisis we must rise to
NASA’s budget is officially in grave danger, but there are things you can do to help.
New NASA budget would shut down 41 space missions
Proposed NASA cuts would cancel dozens of space missions — including spacecraft already paid for, launched, and making discoveries.
Growing and shrinking
Planets and moons change size all the time, whether by attracting mass, shrinking in volume, or spewing their insides out of volcanoes.
Taking the time to see the light
Long-exposure photography can help see dim, distant light sources. It can also show us familiar lights in totally new ways.
The Space Advocate Newsletter, May 2025
NASA cuts loom.
Leaving tracks on other worlds
Our rovers and astronauts leave tracks where they explore. But there’s always the possibility that those tracks — and even entire missions — could be erased.