Planetary Science Division Overview by Jim Green

NASA’s New Horizons mission team has published the first profile of the farthest world ever explored, a planetary building block and Kuiper Belt object called 2014 MU69.

The Next Full Moon is a Blue Moon, the Flower Moon, the Corn Planting Moon, the Milk Moon and Buddha Purnima.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) completed 60,000 orbits around the Red Planet at 10:39 a.m. PDT (1:39 p.m. EDT) on May 15, 2019.

A photo from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the landing site of the Israeli Beresheet spacecraft on a region of the Moon called Sea of Serenity.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine sent a video message to agency employees Monday about the president’s fiscal year 2020 budget amendment, which will support accelerated plans to land astronauts on the Moon by 2024.

High-resolution images show the Moon's lava plains are part of a much younger, shifting landscape than scientists realized.