Robert Clayton has dedicated his life to the analysis of extraterrestrial material, from lunar rocks to meteorites from Mars and the asteroid belt. Now, the editors of a new book, Oxygen in the Solar ...

A new Traveller expansion, Orbital 2100 from Zozer Games, sets up a cold war between the Earth and Moon using 2d6.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Your trip to Jupiter and its Galilean moons may be cut short by an untimely death from radiation poisoning. Saturn's enormous north pole hexagon makes for an intriguing landmark. Tourist season on ...

Do you know that out of the nine planets in our Solar System, one rotates on its side, another has rings that go round and round whereas one is smaller than another planet’s moon? If you didn’t know ...

Join us for a talk with author and professor John Moores about his new book (coauthored with professor Jesse Rogerson) Daydreaming in the Solar System. Through a combination of story and science, this ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

Life as we know it requires liquid water. That’s why astronomers get excited when a planet is found in a star’s “habitable zone,” the Goldilocks region in which a planet is neither too close nor too ...

[Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Micah Toll who does fantastic ebike/battery DIY YouTube howtos, 2 books and just released his latest book, DIY Solar Power. He’s giving Electrek readers Chapter ...

Introduction Have you ever built a model of the solar system for school—or even just seen a picture of the solar system in a book? The planets are usually pretty close together—and close to the sun.