Could the icy moons of our solar system hold life beyond our planet? Keith Cooper looks at how planetary scientists plan to ...

From the Moon to Mars and beyond, humanity has achieved incredible feats in space exploration—but interstellar travel remains ...

Jupiter is a massive, terrifying planet. Despite being studied for centuries and even visited by nine space probes in the ...

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida Tech graduate, she leaves with not only a dual degree in planetary science ...

Introduction: NASA's solar system exploration paradigm : the first fifty years and a look at the next fifty / James L. Green and Kristen J. Erickson -- Part I. Overview. Exploring the Solar System : ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 119, No. 43 (October 25, 2022), pp. 1-2 (2 pages) M. Maurice, N. Tosi, S ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Solar System contains many small, unexplored worlds in a vast region of space beyond Neptune and Pluto. Recent discoveries include dwarf ...

China envisions exploring the solar system, and it seems that would happen soon. The country launched Tianwen-2, an innovative space probe tasked with retrieving samples from an uncharted asteroid and ...

Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the ...

After a picture-perfect launch of twin Escapade spacecraft bound for Mars, Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket aced landing on a recovery vessel floating in the Atlantic, helping power a revolution in ...