The latest edition of the Carnival of Space , the weekly roundup of the best in the Space and Astronomy blogosphere, is now online over at C...

Updated 09/24/2009 12:03 PM MST based on info from this morning's press conference: The internet is abuzz this evening regarding the ...

While normally I remember to cover the big four conferences for planetary science each year (LPSC in March, AGU in May and December, and DPS...

This week's Carnival of Space, the 121st of its name , has been posted over at the blog Next Big Future .  Check it out to read the best...

The final draft of the Io Decadal Survey White Paper has been posted online.  The white paper consists of two sections: the first summarize...

The science program as well as the abstracts for this year's DPS meeting were posted online a few weeks ago. DPS 2009 will be taking ...

Last week, a new paper was published in press (the paper has been approved for publication, but hasn't found a slot in the dead-tree ver...

On Wednesday, NASA released a number of images acquired by the Hubble Space Telescope as part of its re-commissioning period following the ...

The Planetary Science Decadal Survey is now well underway as the community discusses how NASA should spend its money in the discipline over...

As Jupiter and Earth reached their closest approach for 2009 (also known as opposition when the Earth is between Jupiter and the Sun), Chris...

Later this morning, Io's trailing hemisphere will experience a total solar eclipse when Ganymede passes between Io and the Sun. The ecl...

The impact of a small asteroid or comet into Jupiter's atmosphere, first observed by astronomer Anthony Wesley (let's be honest, any...

40 years ago today, two astronauts from a small, liquid water-rich planet called Earth made their first steps into the new frontier, landing...

15 years ago, the world watched as broken-apart comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacted Jupiter's atmosphere in a series of event in July 1994. ...

Tomorrow brings Io's most interesting eclipse this mutual event season as most of Io's trailing hemisphere (51° West-231° West) is p...