In most maps of the solar system, you can expect to see the eight canonical planets (plus whatever Pluto is at the moment) trailing the fiery orange sun like polite little ducklings in a row. In ...

Who doesn't love a good map? I know I certainly do, and the more detailed the map, the better it is. So how about a map of our solar system? Don't worry. Biologist Eleanor Lutz has gone out of her way ...

If you ever go hiking on an asteroid, you’ll want to pack one of Robert Gaskell’s maps. Gaskell, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, is to our solar system’s frontier what Lewis and ...

Using data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey, astronomers have created a 3D map of the low-density bubble of X-ray-emitting, million-degree hot gas that surrounds the solar system. The investigation has ...

World views and the solar system -- Earth-centered world views in classical Europe -- Non-European world views -- Earth-centered world views in the Middle Ages and Renaissance -- Sun-centered and ...

The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas reached its closest point to the sun. Here's how to follow the rest of its journey away from ...

Southwest Research Institute will manage the payload and payload systems engineering for a new NASA mission that will sample, analyze and map particles streaming to Earth from the edge of interstellar ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three dimensions.

Philip Metzger has a vision. The 30-year NASA veteran wants to unleash a fleet of hopping robots — tiny spacecraft that would ply the solar system, map distant worlds and prepare them for the arrival ...