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Get ready for OSIRIS-REx’s upcoming sample collection and share your gift ideas for space lovers.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx is scheduled to grab a sample from asteroid Bennu on 20 October 2020.
PlanetVac, developed by Honeybee Robotics, is designed to be a reliable, flexible, low-cost sample collection technology.
A team of scientists are pitching NASA a mission that would sample Enceladus' plumes from orbit and the surface.
Looking back into space and time, and looking forward to mission milestones and new endeavors. All this and more in your weekly space digest.
Get an update on the latest in space exploration, and find out how you can help defend the Earth from asteroid impacts.
What do professional basketball players have in common with a Mars rover? Plus more news from the adventure of space exploration.
This week, learn about the conditions of the early solar system and get ready for next week’s meteor shower, plus more.
With 3 spacecraft en route to Mars, we’re sharing mission news, Martian maps, and a chance to meet Bill Nye.
The cost of the Perseverance rover disappears into the noise of U.S. spending and represents a more modest investment than you might think.
Everything you need to know about two missions en route to Mars and another gearing up for launch, plus the rest of the week’s space news.
The first Mars microphone, sponsored by The Planetary Society, flew aboard NASA's Polar Lander spacecraft, which crashed on the Red Planet in 1999.
Learn about The Planetary Society’s vision for the next decade of exploration and get up to speed on space news.
Gear up for Asteroid Day on 30 June, explore the latest issue of The Planetary Report, and get your fill of space news for the week.
All the latest space news, plus ways you can celebrate and advocate for space.
It's a banner year for sample return missions. In 2020, China, Japan, and the United States are all scheduled to have sample return missions in flight, seeking to retrieve material from near-Earth asteroids, the Moon, and eventually Mars.
The Planetary Society has a new improved guide to all the places we've landed—or crashed—on Mars, plus planned locations for the upcoming Perseverance, Tianwen-1, and Rosalind Franklin rover missions.
An undergraduate physics research student describes her visit to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to see the Perseverance rover before it shipped to Florida for launch.
The maps will help plan scientific field trips for the rover as it explores an ancient river delta.
Six scientists share the major planetary science discoveries of the past decade, and the questions that will drive the next 10 years of solar system exploration.
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