The Atlas

Scroll Outward from the Sun

14 worlds in true order, then the rest of the atlas — 53 entities, 7 collections, the same knowledge graph as the app

The Sun — Our star
Mercury — The swift innermost planet
Venus — Earth's hostile twin
Earth — The only known living world
The Moon — Earth's companion
Mars — The red planet
Jupiter — King of the planets
Europa — The ocean moon
Saturn — The ringed giant
Titan — Saturn's veiled giant
Enceladus — The geyser moon
Uranus — The sideways ice giant
Neptune — The windiest world
Pluto — The beloved dwarf planet

Stars

The Sun

Our star

Open The Sun →

Stop 1 of 14· order & facts from the curated catalog

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The Solar System Tonight

NASA/JPL Horizons

Asking JPL where everything is…

Missions & Programs

The eras that define spaceflight

ApolloHumanity's Moon landings ArtemisThe return to the Moon VoyagerThe grand tour Cassini–HuygensThirteen years at Saturn CuriosityThe nuclear-powered geologist PerseveranceThe sample collector DragonflyA rotorcraft for Titan New HorizonsFirst to Pluto

Machines

Stations, explorers, and observatories

International Space Station — Humanity's outpost

International Space Station

Humanity's outpost

Crew Dragon — America's ride to orbit

Crew Dragon

America's ride to orbit

Starliner — Boeing's crew capsule

Starliner

Boeing's crew capsule

Orion — The deep-space capsule

Orion

The deep-space capsule

Tiangong — China's space station

Tiangong

China's space station

James Webb Space Telescope — The infrared flagship

James Webb Space Telescope

The infrared flagship

Launch Vehicles

9 vehicles · photography and facts from the curated catalog

Falcon 9 launch vehicle — The workhorse

Falcon 9

The workhorse

Height: 70 m

Starship launch vehicle — The biggest rocket ever flown

Starship

The biggest rocket ever flown

Height: ~121 m stacked

SLS launch vehicle — NASA's Moon rocket

SLS

NASA's Moon rocket

Height: 98 m (Block 1)

Electron launch vehicle — The small-sat specialist

Electron

The small-sat specialist

Height: 18 m

Ariane 6 launch vehicle — Europe's heavy lifter

Ariane 6

Europe's heavy lifter

Height: up to 62 m

Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle — ULA's next generation

Vulcan Centaur

ULA's next generation

Height: 61.6 m

New Glenn launch vehicle — Blue Origin's orbital giant

New Glenn

Blue Origin's orbital giant

Height: 98 m

Soyuz launch vehicle — The most-flown rocket family

Soyuz

The most-flown rocket family

Height: 46.3 m (Soyuz-2)

Saturn V launch vehicle — The Moon rocket

Saturn V

The Moon rocket

Height: 110.6 m

Deep Sky

Stars, galaxies, and the places between

The Sun — Our star

The Sun

Proxima Centauri — Our nearest stellar neighbor

Proxima Centauri

Betelgeuse — The doomed supergiant

Betelgeuse

Sagittarius A* — Our galaxy's central black hole

Sagittarius A*

Organizations

Agencies and builders — shown by their work, never by a logo

NASA — America's space agency

NASA

America's space agency

European Space Agency — Europe in space

European Space Agency

Europe in space

SpaceX — The reusability company

SpaceX

The reusability company

Boeing — The aerospace century

Boeing

The aerospace century

Lockheed Martin — Deep-space prime

Lockheed Martin

Deep-space prime

Northrop Grumman — Webb's builder

Northrop Grumman

Webb's builder

Roscosmos — Russia's space corporation

Roscosmos

Russia's space corporation

Rocket Lab — Small-launch pioneer

Rocket Lab

Small-launch pioneer

Blue Origin — Step by step, ferociously

Blue Origin

Step by step, ferociously

Live Right Now

The atlas, but moving

The ISS by the numbers →

How high, how fast, how long people have lived up there — live telemetry and computed orbital mechanics

Space Tracker →

The station on a live map, tonight’s sky, and what is actually in orbit

From the Atlas

Six of 212, changing daily

Year88 Earth daysMercury Distance from Sun778.5 million kmJupiter FateSupernovaBetelgeuse Orbits of Saturn294Cassini–Huygens Payload to LEO140 tSaturn V Heightup to 62 mAriane 6

All 212 facts in the Atlas →

Collections

Curated like exhibitions — ordered, editorial, real

The Grand Tour — Voyager's once-in-176-years sweep of the giants

The Grand Tour

Voyager's once-in-176-years sweep of the giants · 5 entries

Ocean Worlds — Where the Solar System hides liquid water

Ocean Worlds

Where the Solar System hides liquid water · 5 entries

Return to the Moon — From Apollo's footprints to Artemis's plans

Return to the Moon

From Apollo's footprints to Artemis's plans · 7 entries

Great Observatories — The telescopes that rewrote the universe

Great Observatories

The telescopes that rewrote the universe · 3 entries

Humans in Orbit — Stations and the ships that serve them

Humans in Orbit

Stations and the ships that serve them · 5 entries

The Reusability Era — Rockets built to fly again

The Reusability Era

Rockets built to fly again · 4 entries

Mars Underfoot — The machines driving across another world

Mars Underfoot

The machines driving across another world · 3 entries

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