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The Planet category provides scientific information, discoveries and interesting details about planets in the Solar System and beyond. In this category, you can find in-depth content on the formation of planets, their atmospheric structures, surface features and the discovery process. It also provides up-to-date information on newly discovered exoplanets, the potential of planets to host life and the latest developments in space exploration.
Juice Flyby Steers ESA Spacecraft Past Earth Toward Jupiter
ESA's Juice spacecraft returns to Earth on September 28, 2026, for a third gravity assist maneuver that deflects its orbital trajectory and boosts velocity toward Jupiter.
Arctic Sea Ice Melt Season Stabilizes in Variable Regime
A NASA-led satellite study in Communications Earth & Environment reveals that the Arctic sea ice melt season unexpectedly stabilized around 2010 after decades of lengthening.
Perseverance Rover View Captures Turquoise Bay in Jezero Crater
NASA released a 360-degree panorama of Turquoise Bay within Jezero Crater, combining 818 Mastcam-Z images from the Perseverance rover to map Martian geology.
NASA ROSES Hydrosphere Solicitation Funds Global Water Research
NASA has released the ROSES-2025 A.17 Hydrosphere solicitation, funding research across ocean physics, terrestrial hydrology, and precipitation science under dual-anonymous peer review.
Planetary Boundaries Breached as Seven Earth Systems Fail
The 2025 Planetary Health Check confirms that seven of Earth's nine planetary boundaries have been breached, with ocean acidification entering the danger zone alongside climate and biosphere degradation.
How Earth’s Center of Mass Swivels Under Shifting Waters
Seasonal water movements, thawing snow, and shifting atmospheric pressure cause Earth's center of mass to oscillate by millimeters each year. A new satellite tracking method led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory refines these calculations, cutting measurement discrepancies in half and improving the geodetic reference frames vital for global navigation.
How the Youngest Known Planet Was Found Around Elias 2-24
Astronomers confirmed Elias 2-24 b as the youngest known planet, an infant world less than a million years old embedded within its natal circumstellar disk.
Did a Venusian Moon Spiral into Its Host Planet?
Planetary scientists modeling tidal interactions find that a hypothetical Venusian moon would inevitably spiral inward and crash into the planet, offering a compelling explanation for why Earth's twin orbits alone today.
Beyond Deforestation: Amazon Climate Extremes Hit Central North
A 43-year study across the Amazon basin reveals that climate extremes are accelerating fastest in the intact central-northern rainforest rather than the deforested south, with dry-season heat rising over 3.22°C since 1981.
Why an Ancient Venus Moon Would Be Doomed, Study Suggests
Planetary astrophysicist Stephen Kane and his colleagues found that ordinary tidal forces would have doomed any ancient Venus moon within its first billion years. The findings explain why Venus remains moonless and link slow planetary rotation directly to long-term habitability.