Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and ...

It’s also the amount of time it takes Mercury to travel around the Sun. It’s the shortest orbit in the Solar System, because Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. So, next time someone ...

to orbit several Solar System objects, including Jupiter, the asteroid Vesta and Mars. Polar orbits take the satellites over the Earth’s poles. The satellites travel very close to the Earth (as ...

Visitors to the Kenneth C. Griffin Exploring the Planets Gallery will start at the icy bodies beyond our solar system, and travel inward to the warm, life-giving sun. Space exploration has opened ...

After passing the asteroid, the spacecraft reoriented its solar arrays toward the Sun and reestablished communication with ...