The size of the Solar System and the Universe is truly beyond our comprehension. When we think of the vastness of space, we ...

Leader and Space Our exploration of the solar system is just getting started. Pluto might be the final stop on NASA’s Grand Tour, but our visit marks the start of a new wave of exploration of ...

"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large ...

A cross July 14-15, 1965 (depending on your time zone), the Mariner 4 mission was doing something incredible. This early NASA ...

Robotic Exploration of the Solar System. Five decades after the U.S.S.R.'s Luna 2 moon probe became the first spacecraft to land on another celestial body, ...

(Washington, DC) Today the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology held a hearing entitled “The Exploration of Our Solar System: From Mercury to Pluto and Beyond,” to review recent ...

"Solar System Exploration @ 50" was held in Washington, D.C., on 25-26 October 2012. The purpose of this symposium was to consider, over the more than 50-year history of the Space Age, what we have ...

A new TV documentary is a tender tribute to Voyagers 1 and 2, which launched 40 years ago and were the first spacecraft to visit the outer solar system.

This technology could enable inexpensive exploration of the solar system and, eventually, interstellar space. The $16 million probe, called the Near-Earth Asteroid Scout , is one of the 13 science ...

Although not all objects of the solar system are as well known as Earth, ... (6.5 billion kilometers) from Earth at the time, making it the most distant exploration of a solar system object. ...

NASA has selected a team led by Southwest Research Institute to be a founding member of the agency’s new Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI). The recently formed team… ...

Painters have played a significant but underappreciated role in our exploration of the worlds in our solar system. Scientists tend to specialize in narrow aspects of reality — spectroscopy ...