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Saturn’s icy moon invites further study, and The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 spacecraft celebrates an anniversary.

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Reminisce about the influential Viking missions, picture seeing your all-time favorites on your wall, and get excited for what’s to come.

Casey Dreier

Spaceflight is changing. Let's embrace it.

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China’s Zhurong Mars rover snaps a selfie and gets a bird’s-eye-view pic from above, and asteroid hunters of all kinds look out for dangerous rocks.

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Venus is an intimidating destination for spacecraft, and we’re pretty sure Earth hasn’t yet been a destination for aliens.

Casey Dreier

NASA's new budget says "yes".

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Look at eclipses from the perspective of Earth, the Moon, and beyond. Plus catch up on the week’s space news.

Casey Dreier

This is the 2nd-largest budget proposal for the space agency in 25 years. It embraces a broad set of NASA programs, including Artemis to the Moon, important science initiatives, and a healthy space technology effort.

Rae Paoletta

As the spacecraft prepares to embark on its extended mission, here are some of the most captivating images of Jupiter from NASA's Juno probe so far.

Kate Howells

The Planetary Society congratulates the Government of Canada on a new series of investments in science and exploration at the Moon.

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From solar storms to underwater volcanoes and asteroid close calls, catch up on what’s scary and beautiful this week in space.

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Find out what a super blood Moon is, and celebrate a milestone in Mars exploration.

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A spacecraft leaves one asteroid as planetary defense experts turn to others.

Casey Dreier

Is this the end of stagnation in human spaceflight?

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Don’t leave it up to cosmic fate; take action right now to defend our planet from dangerous impacts.

Rae Paoletta

Space lawyers explain what happens if an object from something like debris from a rocket causes damage or harm.

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Ingenuity flies on Mars and a NASA-SpaceX partnership paves the way for humans to get there too.

Casey Dreier

NASA picked SpaceX's Starship to land humans on the Moon as part of the agency's Artemis program. The decision will help humans land on Mars.

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Listen to the sounds of the Whirlpool Galaxy and look back at our earliest picture of it.

Casey Dreier

Biden's space policy comes into focus with a budget, a space council, and a new administrator.