Sarasota Herald-Tribune

STELLIFEROUS: All aboard for the beautiful and fascinating blue planet of Neptune

This column has often dealt with Earth’s bright, relatively close, naked-eye planetary neighbors (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn), but today we’re taking a 2.7 billion-mile trip out into the ...
Newsweek

NASA Thrilled as Mars Lander Captures Stunning Close-Ups of the Planet’s Surface

The U.S. space agency NASA's Perseverance Rover has been exploring Mars' Jezero Crater for 217 Earth days, searching for signs of ancient life. Its seven powerful cameras have been sending ...
SpaceNews

A Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet’s Surface

A new study using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope provides a rare glimpse of conditions on the surface of a rocky planet orbiting a star beyond the Sun. The study, published today in the ...
PBS

David Grinspoon

QUESTION: What are some of the things you do in comparative planetology? GRINSPOON: Let's take the example of three planets: Mars, Venus and Earth. They are a trio of sibling worlds. Venus and Mars ...
Forbes

Ask Ethan: How Can We Tell If An Exoplanet Has A Surface?

When a planet transits in front of its parent star, some of the light is not only blocked, but if an atmosphere is present, filters through it, creating absorption or emission lines that a ...