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Announcing the first C. Wallace Hooser award for visionary philanthropy

An in-person, invitation-only workshop to help guide future Planetary Society programs.

Planetary Society members power our mission. Thanks to them, The Planetary Society was able to work effectively in 2023 to increase discoveries in our…

Take a look at some of our favorite recent space images and learn about an express mission to Mars.

Meet our second round of STEP Grant winners!

No matter where humans travel, sustenance remains a necessity. Finding a bite to eat during a visit to New York, for example, is no problem.No matter where humans travel, sustenance remains a necessity. Finding a bite to eat during a visit to New York, for example, is no problem. When the destination is a bit farther away, such as Mars, the options are not as plentiful there or on the long journey to get there. That’s where Florida Tech’s Andrew Palmer, above, comes in.

The competitive grant will fund work examining the two most likely ways to produce food: in soil or something like soil, or in water.

The two winning proposals in the 2023 round of STEP grants are a project that will compare different methods of growing edible plants in simulated…

Complicity of other folks? not just simply trump but other institutions? whether it be the congress, other institutions in producing this outcome. >> american institutions politically have become sclerotic. the importance of big money in being able to ensure that policies are not made to make something like infrastructure work, that our educational system is at the bottom of the oecd league tables, when were by far the wealthiest country in the world. those are unacceptable and those are not jus...