Solar System
An Insider's Biography of a Celebrity Mars Rover
The chief engineer for Curiosity offers a peek at the NASA rover’s tumultuous rise to stardom in a new tell-all book
This Weekend, Astronomers Get Their Best Ever Look at an Oort Cloud Object
Looking at the Oort cloud is like looking back in time—a superpower hampered by the fact that the Oort cloud is very, very, very, very far away
Powerful Solar Flare Paints the Sky With Candy-Colored Auroras
Two back-to-back flares sent clouds of charged particles racing toward Earth, creating auroras that may last through the weekend
Earth Is Making the Moon All Warm and Soft on the Inside
A new model boosts the notion that a layer of rock near the moon’s core is squishy and perhaps partially melted
Inspiring Photos of the Biggest, Brightest Supermoon of 2014
Feast your eyes on these snapshots from around the world
Titan’s Ocean Might Be as Salty as the Dead Sea
New data from the Cassini mission shows that the ocean under Titan's ice shell is likely very salty
Flatten Out the Moons and Planets, And You Can See Just How Big Earth Actually Is
Comparing their surface areas side-by-side gives a sense of scale to some of the solar system's inhabitants
The Sun Is Spraying Water Into Space
When the solar wind hits oxygen-rich rocks, water can form
The Coolest Science of 2013, in GIFs
This year, we saw dissolving electronics, flying meteors, gravity-defying chains and rotting pineapples
Curiosity Found Evidence of An Ancient Freshwater Lake on Mars
Drilling into Martian rock revealed that it formed at the bottom of a calm lake that may have had the right conditions for sustaining life
Fantastic Photos of our Solar System
In the past decade, extraordinary space missions have found water on Mars, magnetic storms on Mercury and volcanoes on the moons of Saturn
Life Beyond Earth
An ocean on Mars. An Earth-like planet light years away. The evidence is mounting, but are astronomers ready to say we're not alone?
Clues from a Comet
The first mission to collect space matter from beyond the moon offers insights into the solar system's creation
Celestial Sightseeing
From Triton's active geysers to the Sun's seething flares, newly enhanced images from U.S. and foreign space probes depict the solar system as never before
Caution, Planets Ahead
The world's largest (maybe) 9-planet solar system model goes up along Route 1 in northern Maine
Look! Up in the Sky! It's a Bird! It's a Planet. It's a Very Large Ball of Ice!
It's Pluto, with its moon, Charon
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