Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour “kiss-and-capture” encounter after a grazing collision ...

The change in NASA’s astrophysics division comes days after a similar change in its planetary science division, or PSD. In a Jan. 9 community letter, Fox announced that the agency has hired ...

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31 to the leaders of several committees, known as “analysis groups” or “assessment groups,” that provide input to the agency’s astrophysics and planetary science divisions. The memo said ...

Brown launched the Planetary Health Initiative to explore the link between environmental change and human health.

This course will provide an introduction to the formation, constitution and evolution of planetary systems and planetary bodies. The course also covers an introduction to the characteristics of ...

The “kiss and capture” scenario not only explains Charon’s formation but also deepens our appreciation of the dynamic processes that shape planetary systems.

In January 2025, a rare planetary parade featuring Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, and Venus delighted sky watchers in the US and UK. This event, not expected to re-occur for 400 years ...

For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances in science, medicine and technology for the general public, including the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial, the advent of the ...