Our moon is not the biggest moon in the solar system — not by a long shot. In fact, the Moon is only the fifth biggest satellite in our solar system, wedged right between Io and Europa in size. The ...

A new virtual reality app lets users explore the solar system up close, from scorching-hot Mercury to faraway Pluto and beyond. The app, called Star Chart for VR, is billed as the first virtual ...

Our solar system is filled with moons, planets, comets, and all manner of objects in space. But amidst all that bustling of activity, there’s also quite a few ships and satellites out there exploring ...

As NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 unmanned deep space probes head out of the Solar System, they are in territory that is the very definition of "uncharted." To help fill in the map, the Hubble Space Telescope ...

Most charts of the Solar System we enjoy are terrible lies. This is because they're not to scale: It's easier to clump everything together so that all of the planets and stars fit neatly into an image ...

Our solar system is a pretty astounding place, but sometimes it is hard to really grasp it. So Here are 5 of the best images that help you conceptualize our little corner of the cosmos… This first ...

Nasa's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) is set to become India's Aditya-L1's newest neighbour at the Sun–Earth Lagrange Point 1 (L1) as it launched from Kennedy Space Center in ...

Ask someone "which way is the ocean?" and they'll probably point toward the coast. NASA would tell you to look up at the stars. Earth boasts roughly 320 million cubic miles' worth of water. That's a ...