Twelve Years Around the Solar System This animation shows the Rosetta spacecrafts 12-year journey to reach comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The cosmic billiard ball, as the European Space Agency ...

Kim Stanley Robinsons seventeen novels and six story collections have been translated into 24 languages. Collectively, his Mars trilogy has won all the major science fiction and fantasy awards.

Astronomer Carl Sagan famously wrote that humanity has a responsibility to “preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only ...

The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is also a home for Earth and planetary research and shares a wealth of information on our solar system and its history.

There's a class of objects journeying around our solar system dubbed "centaurs." They don't come near Earth, but NASA just ...

DCU’s Dr David Long has a flare for predicting space weather. Earlier this year, the strongest solar storm in two decades lit ...

For years, researchers have wondered what energy source allows the solar wind − a projection ... in the 1830s − and historians from the Smithsonian who visited the GOP and Democratic ...

Smithsonian Magazine brings history, science, nature, culture and travel to you: Explore history and archaeology from the Sphinx to Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. Catch up on the latest science ...

We explore various proposed resolutions, including the possibility that intelligent life is only listening to the cosmos, and ...

On Neptune far out in the solar system it’s a different story—but ... a graduate student at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard-Smithsonian (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who led the ...

I wish I'd had it when I started out in solar system dynamics.' Martin J. Duncan, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario 'This book beautifully bridges the gap between the old and the new celestial ...