Google Maps in Space is a great supplement for any school assignment about Mars or Venus, but it’s also just a fun and educational way to explore our Solar System. If you’ve ever been to a ...

Are you ready to take a journey across the Solar System? PBS is ready to take us into the weird and wonderful worlds of our ...

The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way ever made has been published after observations by the VISTA telescope over ...

Suppose a map of these United States were drawn on ... and a half miles in diameter would include all the members of our solar system; but on this scale the nearest fixed stars would be nearly ...

New Horizons—the famous NASA spacecraft that flew by Pluto in 2015—is now making new discoveries beyond the Kuiper Belt. With ...

Much of the dust in our solar system is leftover residue ... it will likely have completely redrawn the map of the outer solar system. The new results from the SDC were published on Feb. 1 in ...

Now, however, Pluto and that part of the solar system has moved away from the backdrop of the Milky Way into a sparser region of the night sky. With its Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), Subaru has discovered ...

How long is a day on the Moon? How wide are Saturn's rings? Find out with this visual tour through our solar system's most fascinating features. In contrast, the planets furthest from our sun - ...

However, maps of the magnetic field in the zones ... into the Sun's magnetic environment and its impact on Earth and our solar system.

Scientists have directly mapped the strength of the magnetic field of the solar corona — the outer part of the sun’s ...

Discover how a giant interstellar cloud known as the solar nebula gave birth to our solar system and everything in it. The solar system as we know it began life as a vast, swirling cloud of gas and ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication ... At the time, Pluto and the area of the outer solar system to which New Horizons was headed was in the constellation ...