After its discovery in 1930, Pluto was declared the ninth planet in our solar system and quickly garnered ... after the planet in 1931). (See National Geographic’s first map of Pluto.) ...

Limestone landscapes, like this one in the Stone Forest in China’s Yunnan Province, would be hard to find elsewhere in our solar system ... of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona ...

Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.

Io is the most volcanic body known to science, and researchers have puzzled ... but it doesn’t hold a candle to those of the solar system’s gas giant planets. These moons are worlds unto ...

Asteroids, microbes, and, of course, coronavirus: These photographs capture a year in which science has been championed—and challenged—in unprecedented ways. With a firm yet delicate grip, a ...

The new analysis, published today in Science, identifies the extinction-triggering asteroid as a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite that formed in the outer part of our solar system. Experts refer ...

Photograph by JERRY LODRIGUSS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY While there are perhaps trillions of comets ringing the outer fringes of the solar system, bright comets appear in Earth's visible night sky ...

Thankfully, at some point in the past 4.5 billion years, the cosmos gave Earth’s neighborhood an upgrade: It put a big, bright, icy ring system ... Science journalist and longtime National ...

He talks to National Geographic about consulting on NASA ... a cloud of rocky grains that fills interplanetary space in our solar system. Why did you choose that topic? BRIAN MAY: I knew you ...

But this temperature is not constant throughout the solar system. So-called "empty ... His work has appeared in VICE, National Geographic, World Soccer and The Blizzard, and has been a guest ...

This story is, of course, based in the realm of fiction, but could Earth ever really leave the solar system ... His work has appeared in VICE, National Geographic, World Soccer and The Blizzard ...