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Solar System

Saturn.

Móstoles, Spain

Móstoles Planets Garden

A model solar system adds a celestial touch to this suburban park.

The statue and solar system.

Nicolaus Copernicus Monument

The giant statue and its model solar system honor the native Pole who declared that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

Munich, Germany

Fraunhofer Refractor at the Deutsches Museum

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

The <em>Pathfinder</em> touched down on Mars on July 4, 1997.

Revisiting a 1958 Map of Space Mysteries

What have we learned about the cosmos over the past 60 years?

Jessica Leigh Hester August 24, 2018

The Cassini spacecraft captured this nearly edge-on view of Saturn's rings and the moons Mimas, Janus, and Tethys.

How to Appreciate Saturn as Abstract Art

In an image captured by Cassini, the gas giant's rings look like razor-thin blades.

Jessica Leigh Hester May 14, 2018

How many craters and dark spots can you name?

Who Keeps Track of All the Craters on the Moon?

For generations, women have been critical to bringing order to the chaos of the solar system.

Jessica Leigh Hester April 25, 2018

The Kepler-90 system now ties with our solar system in number of planets.

Found: An Eighth Planet Orbiting a Far-Flung Star

The discovery of Kepler-90i was made possible with artificial intelligence.

Vittoria Traverso December 15, 2017

An illustration of a comet passing close to the sun.

Found: A Comet on a Weird, Wild Swoop Around the Sun

It may be the first interstellar comet ever observed.

Sarah Laskow October 26, 2017

The object 288P, with the binary asteroids' orbit in blue.

Hubble Spotted a Strange New Object in Our Solar System

It's kind of a comet and kind of an asteroid that orbits itself, and it could tell us something about early Earth.

Kelsey Kennedy September 21, 2017

<em>Mariner 9</em>, which is still in orbit around Mars—for now.

A Short History of Epically Destroying Spacecraft in the Name of Science

Cassini isn't the first space probe to go out in a blaze of glory—and it won't be the last.

Kelsey Kennedy September 15, 2017

The bright storm at the planet's equator took scientists by surprise.

Neptune's New Surprise Storm Is Nearly as Big as Earth

The ice giant's atmosphere is pretty chaotic.

Kelsey Kennedy August 4, 2017

There's a New Sunspot Larger Than Earth

Things have been pretty quiet up there, so it was a surprise.

Kelsey Kennedy July 13, 2017

Earth in Anstruther's model solar system

Anstruther, Scotland

Anstruther Model Solar System

Bronze plates placed around this Scottish fishing village form a true-scale model of the solar system.

The total solar eclipse of 1999, in France.

The Tiny Kentucky Town That Eclipse Fans Are Obsessing Over

Hotels are charging astronomical prices for a weekend next August.

Robbie Clark November 9, 2016