In Roman mythology, Pluto is the god and ruler of the dead. For a return mission to the dwarf planet, Howett and her ...

In 2022, NASA successfully crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid 11 million kilometers away—on purpose. The Double Asteroid ...

Though the days are fast ticking by, that success is far from assured. DART is the first-ever test of what NASA calls a ...

Oregon State University researchers tested a quadruped robot at White Sands National Park, showing it can scout terrain and ...

The Business Research Company's Planetary Defense Market to Expand at a 9.2% CAGR by 2029, Reaching US $8.2 Billion It will grow to $8.20 billion in 2029 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.2 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has helped researchers learn new information about how the Earth may have been formed as it gives a deeper look into the Butterfly Nebula.

The MTO, which Blue Origin says could lift off by 2028, is designed to deliver much higher bandwidth to Red Planet spacecraft ...

The looming cancellation of RPS has placed the highest-priority planetary science mission of the coming decade at risk. In ...

OSIRIS-REx reveals gray asteroids reflect red or blue light differently due to sulfide minerals, offering clues to rocky body ...

Once the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer couldn’t survey widely anymore, NASA scientists switched gears and began using the spacecraft for planetary defense.

Back then, the 2013–2022 decadal strategy for planetary science cited the Europa Clipper as the second-highest priority large-scale planetary mission, so a lander seemed like a natural follow-up.

Persephone was part of NASA's Planetary Mission Concept Study, which funds a range of projects to permit the decadal study to make informed decisions about potential future missions.