[Thursday, September 29, 2011] At first glance, a weather forecaster for Venus would have either a really easy or a really boring job, depending on your point of view.

[Monday, September 19, 2011] Over 1,200 new potential planets have been spotted by the Kepler, almost a quarter of them are thought to be Super-Earths. New research suggests that these massive rocky planets may be the result of the failed creation of Jupiter-sized gas giants.

[Saturday, September 3, 2011] The "Eyes on the Solar System" interface combines video game technology and NASA data to create an environment for users to ride along with agency spacecraft and explore the cosmos.

[Thursday, September 1, 2011] Desert planets strikingly like the world depicted in the science fiction classic "Dune" might be the more common type of habitable planet in the galaxy - findings also hint that Venus might have been a habitable desert world as recently as 1 billion years

[Friday, August 19, 2011] Though Space Art has been around for just over a hundred years, there has never been a book that tells the story of the history of Space Art, how it came to be, how it has grown to be perhaps the most influential genre of art ever.

[Friday, June 24, 2011] Researchers analyzing samples returned by NASA's 2004 Genesis mission have discovered that our sun and its inner planets may have formed differently than previously thought.

[Friday, April 8, 2011] New analysis of images taken by ESA's Venus Express orbiter has revealed surprising details about the remarkable, shape-shifting collar of clouds that swirls around the planet's South Pole.

[Monday, March 21, 2011] This is the seventh newsletter to the community regarding the planetary science decadal survey.

[Monday, March 7, 2011] This report was requested by NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to review the status of planetary science in the United States and to develop a comprehensive strategy that will continue these advances in the coming decade.

[Thursday, March 3, 2011] NASA research on a meteorite has provided new evidence that the inner planets formed from materials spread far and wide in the early solar system, and not just from nearby matter.

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