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

Heat shieldReentry at ~40,000 km/hOrion Budget~$25B/yearNASA Crewed shipSoyuz (since 1967)Roscosmos Distance~550 light-yearsBetelgeuse FeedsSaturn's E ringEnceladus Humans walked12The Moon

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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