While life on Mars (and Venus) has long been an obsession for those wondering if we're alone, there are other places in our ...

Explore the relative sizes of the planets in our Solar System and discover their actual distances from the Sun in this ...

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida Tech graduate, she leaves with not only a dual degree in planetary science ...

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 ...

Oceans enchant me. They have a magical quality: the soothing rhythm of waves crashing, the vulnerable feeling of smallness that comes from peering into the deep blue depths. Oceans seem to hold ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our solar system is mostly arranged along one plane in space, as in this not-to-scale artist's diagram. NASA/JPL, CC BY If you’ve ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

You might think of our solar system as fixed and unchanging. But that doesn't take into account the constant discoveries scientists are making in our cosmic neighborhood. WUWM astronomy contributor ...

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, has traveled farther than any spacecraft in human history. After more than four decades of silent endurance through space, it now sails beyond the orbit of the outer ...

From meteorites that impact Earth, to a moon that orbits backwards, to an imposter lurking in the asteroid belt, a variety of strange, wandering worlds are rewriting what we know – and even how we ...