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Solar System

The Earth's solar system, including the sun, moon, planets and satellites
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Explorer I Satellite

In 1958, Explorer 1 launched America's response to the USSR's Sputnik
January 2008 | By Owen Edwards

Maria Zuber

On the surprise evidence of flowing water on Mars
February 2007 | By Laura Helmuth

Though the exoplanets found to date are in our galaxy, most are about 100 light-years away.

The Planet Hunters

Nevermind the demotion of Pluto to a dwarf planet. Astronomers have found about 200 planets orbiting other stars, and they say it's only a matter of time before they discover another Earth.
October 2006 | By Robert Irion

What Makes a Planet?

Why our solar system just shrank.
October 2006 | By Robert Irion

A Martian meteorite fueled speculation and debate in 1996 when scientists reported that it held signs of past life. The search now moves to Mars itself.

Life on Mars?

It's hard enough to identify fossilized microbes on Earth. How would we ever recognize them on Mars?
May 2005 | By Carl Zimmer

Splendid Isolation

When the first astronauts to walk on the Moon returned from their July 1969 lunar expedition, they were confined to quarters
July 2004 | By Owen Edwards

A Bumpy Road to Mars

The president envisions a future human mission to Mars, but medical researchers say surviving the journey is no spacewalk
June 2004 | By Jane Ellen Stevens

This amazing panorama of the Ares Vallis flood plain made the front pages of newspapers around the world in July 1997. It was taken by the Mars Pathfinder lander and features the tiny, 23-pound Sojourner rover nuzzling a rock. The lander and the rover recorded weather patterns, atmospheric data and the composition of many Martian rocks, which apparently had washed down the channel eons ago. The rover, capable of changing course when it met obstacles, captured the imagination of the thousands who followed the mission on the Internet.

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
November 01, 2003 | By Michael Benson

Caution, Planets Ahead

The world's largest (maybe) 9-planet solar system model goes up along Route 1 in northern Maine
March 2003 | By Sam Hooper Samuels

No Place Like Home

December 2002 | By Terence Monmaney

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
March 2002 | By David Holzman


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