Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

In this curious film, a pair of friends venture out into the desert to build an accurate to scale model of our solar system.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Solar System is much more than a collection of planets, moons, comets, and asteroids. It is our home in the cosmos. The Solar System's only ...

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, astronomers detected a strange, fast-moving object racing toward the Sun. Named ...

On Sept. 18, 1977, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a photo of Earth and the moon. It was the first time both the Earth and ...

NASA's Psyche orbiter looked back and snapped a photo of Earth with the moon on its way to the asteroid Psyche in 2029. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU illustration As a NASA spacecraft whizzed away ...

NASA is set to launch three spacecrafts Tuesday with the goal of unlocking the mysteries of solar weather at the edge of our solar system.

The NASA Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft is scheduled to launch on September 23, 2025, to study ...

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...