NASA Science is delivering: every second of every day, of every week, of every year. 2024 is proving to be yet another year of exceptional scientific discovery and achievement. From soft landing back on the Moon a few months ago, to celebrating the Heliophysics Big Year and a Total Solar Eclipse in the contiguous United States, to receiving
READ MOREDownload the full report. Drawing on extensive interactions with the broad planetary science community, the report presents a decadal program of science and exploration with the potential to yield revolutionary new discoveries. The program will achieve long-standing scientific goals with a suite of new missions across the solar system.
READ MOREOur solar system consists of our star, the Sun, and everything bound to it by gravity – the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; dwarf
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READ MOREOur solar system orbits the center of the Milky Way galaxy at about 515,000 mph (828,000 kph). We''re in one of the galaxy''s four spiral arms. It takes our solar system about 230 million years to complete one orbit around the galactic center. There are three general kinds of galaxies: elliptical, spiral, and irregular.
READ MOREMember since 2022. Jim Porter, retired Chief Systems Engineer and Professional Engineer, brings extensive experience designing and building NASA spacecraft, including work on the James Webb Space Telescope, the Nancy Roman Space Telescope and the hurricane-tracking GOES weather satellites. He has led engineering
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READ MOREHello, Pluto! In July of 2015, a spacecraft named New Horizons arrived at Pluto after a long journey. It took amazing pictures of this dwarf planet and will continue to study other objects in the Kuiper Belt from 2018 to 2022. Find out more about Pluto. Make a comet on a stick!
READ MOREResults. Exactly one lunar month after the failure of Kosmos 300, the Soviets launched another Ye-8-5 lunar sample return spacecraft. Once again, the spacecraft failed to leave Earth orbit. When the Blok D upper stage was meant to fire for trans-lunar injection, telemetry readings went off scale and communications were lost.
READ MORENASA''s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system. Find and contact your local Solar System Ambassador. There''s at least one in
READ MORENASA''s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system. Introduction This seemingly simple question doesn''t have a simple answer. Everyone knows that Earth, Mars and Jupiter are planets. are planets.
READ MOREOur solar system formed about 4.5 billion years ago from a dense cloud of interstellar gas and dust. The cloud collapsed, possibly due to the shockwave of a nearby exploding star, called a supernova. When this dust cloud collapsed, it formed a solar nebula – a spinning, swirling disk of material. At the center, gravity pulled more and more
READ MORENASA''s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system. This site is maintained by the Planetary Science Communications team at NASA''s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA''s Science Mission Directorate.
READ MOREThe Solar System Exploration Program consists of large, strategic missions that seek to advance high priority science objectives set forth by the
READ MOREThe era of robotic exploration—sending uncrewed spacecraft beyond Earth as our eyes and ears and senses— only started in the 1950s. A scientific fleet of robots is out there right now exploring destinations from our Sun to interstellar space. This 3D simulation of our solar system is powered by real spacecraft data. NASA/JPL-Caltech/VTAD.
READ MORENASA''s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system. This site is maintained by the Planetary Science Communications team at NASA''s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA''s Science Mission Directorate.
READ MORESolar System Ambassadors. The NASA Solar System Ambassadors program is a public engagement effort that works with motivated volunteers across the nation to communicate the science and excitement of NASA''s space exploration missions and discoveries with the people in their communities.
READ MOREFeedback. Messages of inquiry regarding NASA Solar System Exploration will be answered as time permits. All fields are required. NASA''s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system.
READ MOREVenus is the second planet from the Sun, and the sixth largest planet. It''s the hottest planet in our solar system. Venus is a cloud-swaddled planet named for a love goddess, and often called Earth''s twin. But pull up a bit closer, and Venus turns hellish. Our nearest planetary neighbor, the second planet from the Sun, has a surface hot
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READ MOREOur solar system orbits the center of the Milky Way galaxy at about 515,000 mph (828,000 kph). We''re in one of the galaxy''s four spiral arms. It takes our solar system about 230
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READ MOREWelcome to the Universe. Discover the universe: Learn about the history of the cosmos, what it''s made of, and so much more. Worlds beyond our solar system. Giant balls of hot gas that burn for millions to billions of years. Concentrations of matter with gravity so powerful not even light can escape. Collections of stars, planets, and vast
READ MOREour solar system. NASA Solar System Exploration Our Galactic Neighborhood Skip Navigation menu close modal Missions Juno Juno is on a mission to probe beneath Jupiter''s dense clouds and answer questions about the origin and evolution of
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READ MOREExplore in 3D—Eyes on the Solar System. Eyes on the Solar System lets you explore the planets, their moons, asteroids, comets and the spacecraft exploring them from 1950 to 2050. Ride with the Curiosity Rover as it lands on Mars or fly by Pluto with the New Horizons spacecraft all from the comfort of your home computer. NASA''s real-time
READ MOREIn Depth. The Venus Climate Orbiter mission (PLANET-C), or "AKATSUKI", is studying the atmospheric circulation of Venus. Meteorological information will be obtained by globally mapping clouds and minor constituents successively with four cameras at ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths, detecting lightning with a high-speed
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