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Save NASA Science Press Conference On Monday, October 6, 2025, amid the government shutdown, leaders from 20 national science, education, and space organizations, led by The Planetary Society and its CEO Bill Nye, gathered with Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD-04) and invited Members of Congress at the U.S. Capitol to urge protection of NASA’s and the National Science Foundation’s science budgets. The White House’s proposed 47 percent cut to NASA’s science budget threatens an “extinction-level” event for space exploration.
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Jan 25, 2006
Comet Dust Clouds Planetary Society Crater ContestThree winners were randomly selected from a large pool of entrants in The Planetary Society's "Great Comet Crater Contest."
Jan 16, 2006
Announcing the Top 10 Reasons Pluto Is - or Is Not - a PlanetTo celebrate the New Horizons mission and to draw attention to an interesting scientific debate, The Planetary Society issued a worldwide call for the Top 10 Reasons Pluto is - and is not - a planet.
Jan 15, 2006
From Earth to Pluto: A Digital Time Capsule for the World of TomorrowThe Planetary Society invites children and adults around the world to send a message to future Earth -- a New Horizons Digital Time Capsule from those who launched the mission to the inhabitants of Earth who receive its results nearly a decade later.
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