Tagged With Solar System

Earth is screaming through space at 1.3 million mph. A simple animation by a former NASA scientist shows what that looks like.

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

20 new moons were just discovered orbiting Saturn, and you can help name them

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

Warp speeds in 'Star Trek' are achingly slow, and a simple animation by a former NASA scientist proves it

Dave Mosher

The ocean on Saturn's moon Enceladus contains the building blocks of life, NASA data reveals

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

The moon has been drifting away from Earth for 4.5 billion years. A stunning animation shows how far it has gone.

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

Planet 9, our solar system's mysterious missing world, could be an ancient black hole orbiting the sun, a new paper suggests

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

An amateur astronomer accidentally recorded a rare flash on Jupiter. The culprit turned out to be a 450-ton meteor.

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

A new image of a mysterious object careening toward our solar system strongly suggests it's the first comet from another star system

Morgan McFall-Johnsen, Dave Mosher

Lakes of methane on Saturn's moon Titan may be the craters of giant explosions, a new study shows

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

Uranus is hiding 13 invisible rings. These images captured their warm glow for the first time.

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

Jupiter got hit by a planet with 10 times the mass of Earth billions of years ago, and its core is still reeling, a new study suggests

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

A new NASA portrait of Jupiter reveals its disappearing Great Red Spot in unprecedented colour

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

NASA's InSight lander on Mars has detected more than 20 quakes. Early data suggests the red planet may be less Earth-like than we thought.

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

Tech companies have been silently battling a bizarre phenomenon called 'cosmic rays' that would otherwise wreak havoc on our electronics

Antonio Villas-Boas

Here's why some scientists think Pluto should still be a planet

Gina Echevarria, Shira Polan

A photographer recorded Saturn 'touching' the moon with his smartphone, and the pictures are stunning

Dave Mosher

A 'ridiculous' yet simple animation by a NASA scientist shows how long it takes light to reach Pluto. If you plan to watch it, take a day off work.

Dave Mosher

The Hubble telescope has discovered a 'dark vortex' raging on Neptune that would swallow 20% of Earth's surface

Dave Mosher

Scientists just released the best photo yet of the most distant object ever visited by humanity

Dave Mosher

The speed of light is tortuously slow, and these 3 simple animations by a scientist at NASA prove it

Dave Mosher