Tag Archives: planets

The Seven Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made by Exploring Jupiter

Among the planets in our solar system, Jupiter is the eldest and largest, and it [...]

Ten Celestial Events You Don’t Want to Miss in 2020

Every year, meteor showers dazzle viewers, eclipses reveal the orbital balance of our planet with [...]

Spitzer’s 16 Years of Scanning the Cosmos

Robert Hurt, a visualization scientist working for the Spitzer Space Center, is taking the decommission [...]

NASA Names Its Next Mars Rover ‘Perseverance’

Transcript Written by Jay Bennett NASA’s newest rover, Perseverance, will launch on a rocket in [...]

NASA’s Helicopter Ingenuity Will Attempt the First Flight on Mars

It’s been nearly 120 years since the Wright Brothers proved that controlled, powered flight was [...]

Inside the Experiment to Create Mars on Earth

When Cassandra Klos was growing up in rural New Hampshire, it was easy to see the [...]

The Six Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made by Exploring Venus

One of the main arguments for studying other planets is for what they can tell [...]

The Seven Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made by Exploring Mercury

It seems like Mercury, sitting so close to the sun, should already be a dead [...]

9 Celestial Omens

© natros/Fotolia In the beginnings of science, astronomers studied the motion of the Sun, the [...]

10 Places to Visit in the Solar System

NASA/JPL Having a tough time deciding where to go on vacation? Do you want to [...]

9 Ghostly Planets

© Kim D. French/Shutterstock.com Humanity has sent probes to every planet, so we now have [...]

7 Important Dates in Jupiter History

NASA/JPL/University of Arizona January 7, 1610: Galileo Discovers the Moons diagram from 1771 of astronomy, [...]