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Stories, updates, insights, and original analysis from The Planetary Society.

Space salads and salty waters

The two winning proposals in the 2023 round of STEP grants are a project that will compare different methods of growing edible plants in simulated deep-space exploration conditions, and a project that will study salty lakes on Earth that share characteristics with the past and present oceans of other planets and moons.

First steps and big leaps

Technological innovation is a big part of the fun of space exploration, and you can help make it happen.

Beyond the far side

Explore the two-faced Moon and meet two new projects paving the way for the future of space science.

Seeking Small Worlds

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