Jupiter-like exoplanet unveils secrets of our Solar System formation
By looking at younger star systems in the early stages of development, astronomers can better learn how our solar system evolved.
Brilliant Interactive map of the Solar System
A brilliant, easy to use interactive map of the Solar System, letting you see how the planets move around the sun.
Closest Rocky Exoplanet confirmed
The closest rocky exoplanet confirmed outside our solar system, lies 21 light-years away, located just off the “W” pattern of the Cassiopeia constellation.
Fly over Pluto
A new amazing video from NASA, showing simulated flyover of Pluto’s Norgay Montes (Norgay Mountains) and Sputnik Planum (Sputnik Plain), created from New Horizons closest-approach images.
Close-up images of Pluto
New close-up images of a region near Pluto’s equator. It’s about a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet above the surface of the
Pluto is bigger than expected
New Horizons finally gets up close with Pluto, the most remote object ever visited in the Solar System, for only 15 minutes. Watch the videos…
Watch the historic Pluto Flyby
Watch The Historic Pluto Flyby
This is Pluto!
With the speed of 30,800 miles per hour, New Horizons spacecraft will pass by Pluto tomorrow, offering us for the first time, unique images of the distant
Five-Star Solar System
Astronomers discovered a five-star Solar System, made of two binary stars and a fifth star all orbiting about each other.
The Coldest Places in our Solar System
These are the coldest places in our Solar System. The order is from the ‘hottest’ and the coldest is very well known! Mars. During wintertime, the two