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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...

Pioneer 10 was the first probe to cross the asteroid belt, traversing it between July 1972 and February 1973. Arriving at Jupiter in December 1973, it passed some 132,000 kilometres from its cloud ...

The story of the birth of our solar system has been worn smooth through years of retelling. It starts billions of years ago with a black, slowly spinning cloud of gas and dust. The cloud collapses, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. With so many interesting solar system facts, we've narrowed them down to 25 of our favorites. Our ...