You searched for site/planetary science | Popular Science

80 Results From "site/planetary science"

Mount Augustus National Park desert and hill in Australia against blue sky

Earth’s oldest meteorite crater found in Australia

a lunar lander on the surface of the moon

New evidence for water lurking under the moon’s poles

Domed city in inhospitable planet perhaps Mars

The extinction loop

By Jonas Staal / MIT Press Reader

This picture shows many tiny cells in which DNA is abundantly included inside the cells.

Oldest living microbes found in 2-billion-year-old rock

an illustration showing several dinosaur species walking in a line

A dinosaur ‘tombstone’ lurks underneath New Jersey

By Laura Baisas

Starship test launch in 2021

SpaceX’s Starship may mess up the lunar surface

stonehenge. these large neolithic standing stones are arranged in a circle

Geologists crack a major Stonehenge mystery

By Laura Baisas

Concept art of asteroid entering planet's atmosphere

What would we do if an asteroid slammed Earth on July 12, 2038?

large dish on earth sends waves out to the moon in illustration

An enormous radio telescope may soon be a powerful tool for planetary defense

By Sarah Scoles

DART spacecraft impact on Dimorphos asteroid in a computer model with yellow, gray, and black

5 ways we know DART crushed that asteroid (but not literally)

products on a page that says best of what's new 2025

Best of What's New

The 50 greatest innovations of 2025

By Popular Science Team

A NASA illustration of its boxy OSIRIS spacecraft touching an asteroid.

NASA’s OSIRIS mission delivered asteroid samples to Earth

Person underwater looking up at outer space to represent Blue Abyss training tank. Illustrated.

Inside Blue Abyss’ plan to build super-deep pools for astronauts and military bots

By Sarah Scoles

ISS astronaut taking selfie during space walk for social media

Make your social media feed smarter with these science accounts

By Jamie Helmick

Hera asteroid space probe radio antenna in ESA lab

DART left an asteroid crime scene. This mission is on deck to investigate it.

Satellite image of the powerful eruption.

How the Tonga eruption rang Earth ‘like a bell’

Robot plants could be used to grow infrastructure in space from scratch

Robot plants could be used to grow infrastructure in space from scratch

By Dario Floreano and Nicola Nosengo/MIT Press Reader

illustration of scientist with 3D models

Inside the little-known group that knows where toxic clouds will blow

By Sarah Scoles

Industrial shot of an oil refinery plant

How Google Search is helping ‘greenwash’ oil companies

Mars surface impact crater from meteor strike with water ice captured by NASA instruments

Two NASA missions combined forces to analyze a new kind of marsquake

By Briley Lewis

1 2 3 4

Latest

palm trees blowing in the wind next to a roof

Wavy-shaped homes could limit damage from hurricane winds

By Mack DeGeurin

A virtual figure projected on the big presentation screen at the EssilorLuxottica SWITCH eye-care summit in Orlando in March 2026

I went from Milan to Orlando to learn whether glasses that change your look can change your outlook

Image of Crown Mountain in Canada with a red circle highlighting a stranded teen hiker in the far distance

A teen used AI to plan a hiking route. It trapped him on a cliff.

Artwork depicting feathered raptors scavenging a dead Albertosaurus

A baby tyrannosaur possibly cannibalized its dead relative